| 25-6819 |
Brandon Prawl v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2026-02-13 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-indictment due-process fifth-amendment sixth-amendment |
The Petitioner, Brandon Prawl, was indicted for one crime but convicted of a different crime and sentenced to a consecutive 60-month prison term. Does… |
| 25-6791 |
David Sano-Perez, aka David Sanot Perez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules harmless-error rule-60b sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a District Court's mere pronouncement at a criminal sentencing that it would have imposed the same sentence on a defendant without regard to t… |
| 25-950 |
Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
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appellate-review certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process sixth-amendment |
I
Did the Sixth Circuit err when it reversed the district
court's grant of the writ based on ineffective
assistance of counsel during cross-examinatio… |
| 25A902 |
Raymond Ghaloustian, aka Valnyk Matthewsi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-09 |
Application |
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appellate-review certificate-of-appealability federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2255 |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6751 |
Jeffrey W. Young, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substances drug-distribution medical-practice regulatory-definition subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the lower federal court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the defendant, who was an authorized practitioner with the authority to admini… |
| 25A891 |
Nicholas Sexton v. Maine |
Maine |
2026-02-06 |
Application |
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appellate-review certificate-of-probable-cause due-process post-conviction-review pro-se-petition procedural-waiver |
Question not identified. |
| 25A894 |
George Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-06 |
Application |
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appellate-review fifth-circuit ineffective-counsel legal-claims pro-se procedural-deficiency |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6726 |
William Lewis Reece v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2026-02-05 |
Pending |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review coerced-confession constitutional-claims de-novo-review harmless-error |
1. Whether Oklahoma's application of the abuse of discretion standard violates Payne v. Arkansas, Chapman v. California, and Arizona v. Fulminante req… |
| 25-6717 |
Alaa Elkharwily v. Kaiser Permanente, et al. |
Washington |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-limits due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-sanctions pro-se-litigation |
1- UNCONSTITUTIONALLY BIASED ADJUDICATION (RULE OF NECESSITY/
SELF-INTEREST): Did the state appellate court violate the Due Process
Clause of the Fo… |
| 25-6699 |
Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing |
Is urging a sentence recommendation lower than is ultimately imposed and grounding that recommendation in the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, sufficient … |
| 25-905 |
Andrew J. Johnston v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-02-02 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
appellate-review criminal-procedure final-sentence motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing-factors |
1. Whether an appeal from an order partially denying a Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 35(b) motion for sentence reduction is an appeal from "an ot… |
| 25A863 |
Steve Ferguson v. Republic of Trinidad and Tobago |
Florida |
2026-02-02 |
Application |
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appellate-review certification final-judgment judicial-procedure opinion-withdrawal state-court |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6680 |
Juan Manuel Cruzado-Laureano v. Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico |
First Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review brief-filing circuit-court due-process judicial-procedure procedural-validity |
Is a judgment issued by a Federal Appellate Circuit valid when the Appellant was never given the opportunity to file the Brief of Appeal? |
| 25-6681 |
Victor Correa v. Scott Wyckoff, Executive Officer, Board of Parole Hearings, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights default-judgment due-process federal-procedure judicial-discretion |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in determining that it had authority to deny respondents' strategic lawsuit against public participat… |
| 25-901 |
Benancio Garcia, III v. Steven Hobbs, Secretary of State of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Pending |
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appellate-review equal-protection judicial-remedy legislative-districts mootness racial-gerrymandering |
Whether a plaintiff's Equal Protection Clause racial gerrymandering claim is rendered moot when the challenged legislative district is replaced in a d… |
| 25A849 |
Michael Prime v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Application |
|
appellate-review cryptocurrency-seizure federal-jurisdiction motion-to-reconsider property-forfeiture rule-41g |
Question not identified. |
| 25-888 |
Anoka Hennepin Education Minnesota, (American Federation of Teachers Local 7007) v. Don Huizenga, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review article-iii constitutional-standing judicial-exception municipal-funds taxpayer-standing |
1. Should this Court repudiate the municipal-taxpayer exception to the general rule against taxpayer standing?
2. If there is a municipal-taxpayer ex… |
| 25-6643 |
Lawrence Rhoden v. Brittany Greene, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus procedural-ruling |
WHETHER A CRIMINAL DEFENDANT IS LEGALLY ENTITLED TO A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WHERE:
(1) IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT A SUBSTANTIAL SHOWING OF THE DE… |
| 25-6653 |
Randy Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Did the district court obviously err by considering the retributive factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(2)(A), in violation of Esteras v. United States,… |
| 25-877 |
Jeffrey Steven Clay v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-conviction judicial-error legal-review tenth-circuit |
Whether the Tenth Circuit erred when they affirmed Clay's conviction. |
| 25A842 |
Church of the Gardens, et al. v. Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-22 |
Application |
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appellate-review article-iii constitutional-limits judicial-power status-quo subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6639 |
In Re Deon D. Colvin |
|
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court district-court judicial-procedure jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus |
1. Does the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have jurisdiction over this matter?
2. Did the Special Panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals have the … |
| 25-860 |
ThermoLife International LLC, et al. v. BPI Sports, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure court-conflict inherent-authority sanctions |
1. Whether an imposition of sanctions against a party and not its attorney under a court's inherent authority can be upheld by the mere talismanic rec… |
| 25-6612 |
Qing Han v. Joseph Auto Service Inc. |
Texas |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause documentary-evidence exhibit-admission notary-interpretation pro-se |
Whether the Court of Appeals permits an appellate court to give a notice of judgment on the theory that a prose, interpreter-assisted litigant never o… |
| 25-6613 |
Dustin Matthews v. City of Tempe, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-16 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process ninth-circuit rule-56 summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from this Court's Rule 56 jurisprudence by sanctioning summary judgment where the district court failed to credi… |
| 25-835 |
Jean-Francois Rigollet v. Le Macaron Development, LLC |
Florida |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-contradiction procedural-exclusion summary-judgment |
The circumstances following the presented questions, creates two constitutional questions under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment:
1… |
| 25A820 |
Roxana Towry Russell v. Walmart Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-14 |
Application |
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appellate-review copyright-infringement judicial-review rule-50 sufficiency-of-evidence unitherm-precedent |
While she is continuing to evaluate, Ms. Russell currently expects to present several reasons for granting a writ. One is that the Ninth Circuit's dec… |
| 25-825 |
Katharina Katja Isabel Meier, Individually and as Next Friend of Her Minor Child N. B. M. v. Aspen Academy, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure discovery-stay district-court pleading-stage summary-dismissal |
1. Whether a district court may categorically stay all
discovery at the pleading stage and dismiss a civil
action on a closed record where adjudicat… |
| 25-6544 |
Louis Olivarria v. California |
California |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review deliberations impartial-jury juror-dismissal sixth-amendment trial-court |
What standard applies when appellate courts review a trial court's dismissal of a juror during deliberations to determine whether the dismissal was ba… |
| 25-810 |
John W. Fink v. Kaydon A. Stanzione, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process judicial-misconduct petition-for-certiorari |
1. Does this Court need to intercede because the lower courts have deviated substantially from the norm in judicial proceedings?
2. Did the judges in… |
| 25-6516 |
Auburn Calloway v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection judicial-disqualification mens-rea sentence-reduction |
Whether the appellate affirmance of the district court's sentence reduction denial overlooked A) that the district court was disqualified because the … |
| 25-793 |
Carlos A. Alonso Cano, as Next Friend of His Minor Daughters Katy Alonso Morejon & Jany Leidy Alonso Morejon v. 245 C&C, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bill-of-costs circuit-court judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari rehearing |
Whether this panel of the U. S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals (CA) erred by: (1) denying our petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc with its ord… |
| 25-804 |
George Baldwin Hutchinson, Jr. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process ftca-claim government-liability service-of-process |
1. Did the Eleventh Circuit err in affirming the district court's requirement that
Petitioner serve individual government employees in a Federal Tort … |
| 25A784 |
William M. Hilton v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2026-01-07 |
Application |
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appellate-review constitutional-rights court-martial military-counsel military-justice speedy-trial |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6486 |
Marvin Bowman v. City of Chicago Board of Education |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review court-procedure harm-analysis judicial-error legal-standard summary-judgment |
Whether or not the courts errored when they applied the significant harm standard to this case when this court had already ruled against it? Whether o… |
| 25-6495 |
Jason Elysse v. Florida |
Florida |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claim discretionary-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment |
First, whether a State Appellate Court violates a Defendant's Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when it affirms a trial Court's denial of a… |
| 25-6497 |
Candelario Cruz-Trujillo v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct waiver |
I. Whether the Indiana Court of Appeals ' holding that Candelario Cruz-Trujillo
waived his post-conviction claim because he failed to make specific c… |
| 25-6475 |
May Chen v. Manufacturers & Traders Trust Company, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2026-01-05 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review default-judgment emergency-motions judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct rules-of-procedure |
This is a 4th filing of Petition for a Writ of Certiorari following the previous Supreme Court Case No. 23-5501 "May Chen v. MPD et.al.". Due to repea… |
| 25-782 |
Garland Williamson v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Federal Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure appellate-review court-procedure judicial-mandate legal-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal appellate court may affirm the dismissal of a statutory claim without interpreting the governing statute, without applying the Admin… |
| 25A774 |
Raymond E. Butler v. Eli Eddi, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-05 |
Application |
|
appellate-review attorney-advocacy disqualification-motion due-process first-amendment judicial-sanctions |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6459 |
Oscar Dillon, III v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-criminal-procedure statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
In Fischer, 144 S. Ct. at 2185, this Supreme Court focused on what conduct was prohibited by the "otherwise" clause in 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2) and emph… |
| 25-6465 |
Ledale Deanthony Sawyer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus legal-argument sentencing-error |
1. Whether a defendant's appeal waiver bars appellate review of a clear sentencing error when the defendant preserved the exact legal argument below a… |
| 25-771 |
Joe Carollo v. William O. Fuller, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review eleventh-circuit judicial-precedent jury-tampering presumption-of-prejudice trial-integrity |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' narrow application of the presumption of prejudice standard when evaluating unrefuted evidence of jury … |
| 25A755 |
Adam David Clayman v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Application |
|
appellate-review court-discretion emergency-relief judicial-records procedural-due-process sealing-motion |
Question not identified. |
| 25A763 |
Peter Szanto v. Evye Geller Szanto, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Application |
|
appellate-review certiorari-extension judicial-bias judicial-recusal liteky-standard supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6443 |
Carmine Amelio v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee |
Connecticut |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-defect recusal standing |
1. Whether due process is violated when a state trial judge conducts a dispositive evidentiary hearing on standing and jurisdiction while an appellate… |
| 25-6451 |
Thomas Steven Sanders v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-or-controversy commutation death-penalty federal-sentencing mootness |
Following commutation of a death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of release, does a case or controversy regarding the death penalty… |
| 25A754 |
Martez Abram v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-12-30 |
Application |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights direct-appeal indigent-defendant mississippi-supreme-court supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6439 |
Marquis Melton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split district-court district-court-discretion harmless-error procedural-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court's statement, asserting it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any potential procedural error, renders that err… |
| 25-6423 |
Ammar al Baluchi, aka Ali Abdul Aziz Ali v. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense |
District of Columbia |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review detainee-rights geneva-convention jurisdiction military-law mixed-medical-commission |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by denying jurisdiction over Petitioner's appeal. In particular, did the Court of Appeals err by interpreting provi… |
| 25-745 |
Bobby MacBryan Green v. Michael John May, et al. |
Tennessee |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-system property-interests subject-matter-jurisdiction |
The trial court has been placed in an untenable position by aberrant appellate rulings. First, the
intermediate appellate court issued a judgment and
… |
| 25-6431 |
Edin Anael Solis-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea plain-error-standard rule-11 sentencing |
Does a defendant's failure to object to a Rule 11(b)(1)(H)-(I) error count against him twice, not only by subjecting him to the rigorous plain-error s… |
| 25-6411 |
Gregory Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement |
Can a criminal defendant knowingly and voluntarily waive the right to appeal a district court's yet-to-be-made errors as part of a plea agreement, and… |
| 25A724 |
Wade Reeves v. Alisha Gregorio |
Oklahoma |
2025-12-22 |
Application |
|
appellate-review constitutional-authority contempt-proceeding due-process jurisdictional-challenge void-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 25A733 |
Scott Erik Stafne v. Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Application |
|
appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-questions judicial-authority pro-se sanctions |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6416 |
Omar Anthony Quintero-Arias v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error sentencing-factors statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Though district courts have discretion to impose appropriate conditions of supervised release, that discretion is limited by 18 U.S.C. § 3583. See Con… |
| 25-707 |
Marissa Girard v. Kenton Girard, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights-removal constitutional-violation federal-forum state-court-proceeding statutory-interpretation |
Whether a defendant may remove a state court proceeding to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1443(1) when the state action itself violates constitutiona… |
| 25-718 |
Missouri, ex rel. Sylvia Pride v. Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western District |
Missouri |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-fabrication open-records property-interest |
When a state appellate court ignores the undisputed facts of an appeal and expressly decides an appeal on different, even opposite facts, does the res… |
| 25A721 |
Adam J. Sherman v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-12-18 |
Application |
|
appellate-review court-martial ineffective-assistance military-justice rape-of-a-child trial-defense-counsel |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6406 |
Lawrence Joseph Florentine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review judicial-discretion legal-error sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation variance-sentence |
Does a district court's announcement that it would have imposed the same sentence as an "alternate variance sentence" insulate an erroneous legal ruli… |
| 25-6385 |
Johnathan Morrison v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Pending |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guideline |
Does the miscarriage of justice exception to appeal waivers apply to an appellate claim that a district court sentenced a defendant under the wrong se… |
| 25-6387 |
Joan Diaz Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure de-novo-standard sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
The Sixth Amendment provides: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial . . . ." The question pres… |
| 25-6367 |
Luis Daniel Fuentes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a)-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion mitigating-evidence sentencing |
Whether a sentencing court must address mitigating evidence and arguments offered by defense counsel regarding factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a… |
| 25-6330 |
Jose M. Rojas-Tapia v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting appellate-review crime-of-violence mail-offense modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement |
I. Does aiding and abetting a mail offense pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2114(a) constitute a crime of violence for purposes of serving as a predicate offen… |
| 25-6332 |
Ángel Forteza-García v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-abetting appellate-review crime-of-violence mail-offense modified-categorical-approach sentencing-enhancement |
I. Does aiding and abetting a mail offense pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2114(a) constitute a crime of violence for purposes of serving as a predicate offen… |
| 25A681 |
Matthew Lee Sepulveda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-10 |
Application |
|
appellate-review certiorari criminal-sentence legal-procedure supreme-court time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 25A677 |
Evan Norman v. Lee Ingle, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
appellate-review excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment video-evidence |
1. This case presents an important question dividing the circuits: Whether an appellate court has jurisdiction under Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1… |
| 25-6316 |
Kyle Ray Campbell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure ninth-circuit sentence-reasonableness sentencing waiver |
Whether the district court erred and imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence of three hundred months?
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal… |
| 25-6300 |
Anthony Jones v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance plain-error structural-defects |
I. Whether structural constitutional defects in indictments should be reviewed under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52's plain error standard when… |
| 25-653 |
Shannon McKinnon v. Genaro Hernandez |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine federal-jurisdiction final-judgment-rule sovereign-immunity state-law-immunity |
Whether an order denying a local official's claim of state-law immunity is immediately appealable in federal court under the collateral-order doctrine… |
| 25-657 |
Benzo Elias Rudnikas v. Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-05 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court judicial-discretion party-presentation procedural-rules supervisory-power |
Whether the decision issued by the Eleventh
Circuit on July 30, 2025, dismissing Petitioner 's
appeal, constituted such a substantial departure
fro… |
| 25-648 |
Crystal Stranger v. Cleer LLC, fka Greenback Business Services LLC, dba Cleer Tax |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review contempt-sanctions due-process legal-consequences mootness temporary-restraining-order |
Whether due process permits contempt sanctions to be imposed under a Temporary Restraining Order that was never reviewed on appeal, where the court of… |
| 25-630 |
Ruth Moton v. Al Schmidt, Secretary of Pennsylvania, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights court-access due-process election-claims impartial-adjudication |
1. Whether the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court's decision violated Petitioner's rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by dis… |
| 25-635 |
Edward Ronny Arnold v. Moore and Smith Tree Care LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review constitutional-violation electronic-evidence procedural-error sixth-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in ruling the Appellant forfeited appellate review?
2. Whether the United S… |
| 25-643 |
Onwy Uzoigwe v. Charter Communications, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure forum-defendant-rule pro-se-pleading removal-jurisdiction service-of-process |
1. Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's late return of a CPLR 312-a acknowledgment form does not constitute proper service u… |
| 25-624 |
Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review clear-error ineffective-counsel jury-verdict mixed-question strickland-standard |
1. Where the court that presided over a defendant's trial and post-conviction evidentiary hearing finds the defendant suffered prejudice under Strickl… |
| 25-6263 |
Sherri Richardson v. Irongate Mutual Homes, Inc., trading as Pear Tree Park Townhomes |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review counterclaims district-court federal-question jurisdiction procedural-considerations |
I. WHETHER THE APPELLATE COURT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT THAT FEDERAL QUESTION JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURAL CONSIDERATIONS DI… |
| 25A639 |
Stanley Donald v. Carol Micci, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-02 |
Application |
|
appellate-review certiorari legal-assistance pro-se supreme-court time-extension |
Whether a pro se litigant can obtain an extension of time to file a writ of certiorari due to difficulties in obtaining legal assistance during holida… |
| 25-6256 |
Francis T. Greiser, Jr. v. Marian K. Greiser, et al. |
Florida |
2025-11-26 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigant supremacy-clause |
In Artis v. District of Columbia, 138 S. Ct. 594 (2018),
this Court held that states may not dismiss 28 U.S.C. §
1332 claims denied supplemental jur… |
| 25-6234 |
Edwin Riascos Romero v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim ineffective-assistance search-and-seizure sufficiency-of-evidence |
1. Whether the denial of a COA on Petitioner's sufficiency of the evidence challenge was proper? and
2. Whether the denial of a COA on Petitioner's i… |
| 25-6236 |
Jesse Alan Walker v. William D. Snyder, Sheriff, Martin County, Florida |
Florida |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel pretrial-proceedings sixth-amendment |
Does the United Constitution of the Constitution of Florida permit the petition for a writ of habeas corpus to be decided based on the facts and retur… |
| 25A621 |
Chad Henry Jones v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
|
appellate-review appointed-counsel extraordinary-circumstances petition-for-certiorari pro-se withdrawal |
Whether a pro se prisoner is entitled to an extension of time to file a petition for writ of certiorari when appointed counsel has withdrawn and the p… |
| 25-6244 |
Tasleema Yasin v. VM Master Issuer, LLC |
Georgia |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review due-process electronic-filing equal-protection first-amendment |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a timely notice of appeal is denied solely because of the State's malfunctio… |
| 25-605 |
James Maharg v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bench-trial coerced-confession constitutional-error due-process harmless-error |
Whether, in a criminal bench trial for murder, a trial judge who admits over objection a defendant's coerced confession to that offense may later insu… |
| 25-6203 |
Misael Fabian Medina v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review evidence-rule excited-utterance hearsay-exception procedural-fairness reliability-standard |
Have the federal appellate courts departed too far from the purpose and intent of the excited utterance exception to the hearsay rule, such that the r… |
| 25-596 |
Clifford A. Lowe, et al. v. ShieldMark, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-discretion rule-60b sanctions-award subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) When a district court is presented with a motion for relief from judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b), does it abuse its discretio… |
| 25A596 |
Eric W. Singleton v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-11-20 |
Application |
|
appellate-review constitutional-right court-martial criminal-procedure military-justice unanimous-verdict |
Whether a military accused has a constitutional right to a unanimous verdict in a court-martial proceeding |
| 25A598 |
Taquan Rahshe Gullett-El v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-20 |
Application |
|
appellate-review certiorari consolidated-appeals federal-questions legal-theories supreme-court-rule |
Whether a federal appellate court's disposition of consolidated appeals involving overlapping factual and legal questions can materially impact the fr… |
| 25-6156 |
Thomas J. Zajac v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure speedy-trial-act trial-continuance |
Speedy Trial Act
A. In contradiction of Supreme Court Rule 10, was the appellate court's avoidance of, through modifications to appellant's facts and… |
| 25-6170 |
Errol Victor, Sr. v. Louisiana, et al. |
Louisiana |
2025-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process jurisdictional-error pro-se-representation self-representation |
1. WHETHER THE STATE APPELLATE COURT COMMITTED PLAIN JURISDICTIONAL ERROR WHEN GRANTING STATE APPELLEE'S MOTION FOR EXTENTION AFTER FILING DEADLINES H… |
| 25-580 |
Gary Richard Whitton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
appellate-review constitutional-error giglio-violation habeas-corpus prejudice-standard trial-evidence |
1. Whether in determining whether a constitutional error had a prejudicial effect on the outcome of a trial a court must consider only that evidence t… |
| 25-6141 |
Mark Abercrombie v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine and boilerplate assertion … |
| 25-6143 |
Rodney James Dilworth v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review |
WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER'S REQUEST FOR A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY. |
| 25A580 |
Tony Phillips v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-17 |
Application |
|
appellate-review criminal-trial due-process judicial-discretion life-imprisonment sentencing |
Whether a criminal defendant's right to a fair trial is violated when a district court imposes a life sentence following a re-trial without providing … |
| 25-6128 |
In Re Joseph Cammarata |
|
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process judicial-process mandamus subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether a United States Court of Appeals violates the Due Process Clause and the All
Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651(a), by refusing for over eight mo… |
| 25A560 |
Jane Doe v. United States District Court for the District of Connecticut |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Application |
|
alternative-remedy appellate-review extraordinary-writ judicial-discretion mandamus pro-se |
Whether a pro se litigant can obtain mandamus relief when alternative legal remedies exist and the right to extraordinary relief is not clearly establ… |
| 25-6086 |
Jonathan Kemuel Fargas-Reyes v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split sentencing-disparities sentencing-reform similar-conduct statutory-interpretation |
A core purpose of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 is to eliminate arbitrary sentencing disparities. As part of that reform, 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) r… |
| 25-6087 |
Leroy Thomas Joyner, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review due-process evidence-transcription judicial-proceedings summary-affirmance supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether a Federal Court may grant summary affirmance of an appeal taken from the district court order denying transcription of audio and video reco… |
| 25A536 |
Adrienne L. Clark v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-11-07 |
Application |
|
appellate-review child-pornography court-martial military-justice sexual-abuse ucmj |
Whether a military appellate court's decision to partially set aside findings of guilty and reassess a sentence comports with due process and the Unif… |
| 25-6042 |
Calvin Shaw v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alibi-witnesses appellate-review criminal-procedure government-witnesses ineffective-assistance trial-counsel |
I- DID THE COURT OF APPEALS ERR WHEN IT DID NOT FIND TRIAL COUNSELS REPRESENTATION OF MR. SHAW INEFFECTIVE BASED ON HIS FAILURE TO CALL ALIBI WITNESSE… |
| 25-6048 |
Mark Brentley, Sr. v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law appellate-review civil-service-commission federal-jurisdiction property-rights |
1. WHETHER THE FEDERAL COURT HAS JURISDICTION OVER THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
2. CAN YOU APPEAL THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION IN FEDERAL COURT BASED… |
| 25-6052 |
David D. Richardson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court duty-of-care medical-relationship pennsylvania-law third-circuit |
WHETHER THE THIRD CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS COMMITTED REVERSIBLE ERROR IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S JUDGMENT WHERE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO AP… |
| 25A526 |
Martin Gutierrez-Barba v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Application |
|
18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split federal-sentencing preservation-of-error sentencing-error |
Whether a defendant must raise an objection after sentencing to preserve a nonfrivolous sentencing argument based on 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors that … |
| 25-6033 |
Willie Frank Nelson v. Tanya Demers, Acting Superintendent, Bare Hill Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review district-court judicial-discretion merits-review procedural-impediment statute-of-limitations |
A. The relief sought has common law analogue vi.
B. The All Writs Act empowers federal courts to issue writs "agreeable" to the usages and principles… |
| 25A512 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Carlos Rosado, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Application |
|
appellate-review case-volume civil-rights eleventh-circuit judicial-procedure petition-denial |
Whether a federal court can review the systematic denial of multiple civil rights claims by a lower appellate court based on procedural grounds |
| 25A513 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Darrin P. Gayles, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-04 |
Application |
|
appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights judicial-system legal-standing petition-review |
Whether a federal court can review the systematic denial of multiple civil rights claims by a lower appellate court when a litigant demonstrates a pat… |
| 25-6016 |
Todd White v. ACell, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split due-process false-claims-act fifth-amendment summary-judgment |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit violated Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to due process by denying his motion … |
| 25-6017 |
John Todd Williams v. Richard J. Sullivan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion |
1. Whether the denial of in forma pauperis status to an indigent litigant raising substantial constitutional claims — including violations of the Four… |
| 25A499 |
Joan Diaz Gonzalez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-31 |
Application |
|
appellate-review barker-factors constitutional-rights government-negligence sixth-amendment speedy-trial-clause |
Whether an appellate court must review de novo a district court's determination of government negligence under the Sixth Amendment's Speedy Trial Clau… |
| 25-6011 |
John De Light v. Laura De Light, et al. |
California |
2025-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdictional-transfer |
1. Automatic Preemptive Rulings and Judicial Overreach
Whether a state court violates basic principles of due process by issuing preemptive rulings —s… |
| 25-5973 |
Eric Michael Schuster v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clearly-erroneous-standard due-process fourteenth-amendment mixed-questions-of-law standard-of-review |
Whether a reviewing court must strictly adhere to the Supreme Court requirement that a district court's fact-findings "must not be set aside unless cl… |
| 25-5969 |
James Logan Diez v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review cross-examination due-process judicial-discretion transcript-error |
1] Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals abuse its discretion when it refused Review after Petitioner discovered approx. 20-25 min. of Cross-Examina… |
| 25-5978 |
Edgard Velasquez v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review federal-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-transcripts judicial-discretion supervisory-authority |
Does the district court's clearly erroneous denial of Petitioner's motion for grand jury transcripts pursuant Fed. R. Crim. P. 6 and the Fifth Amendme… |
| 25-5963 |
Cesar Edgardo Castillo-Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, after Holguin-Hernandez v. United States, 589 U.S. 169 (2020), a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference… |
| 25A470 |
Chase Hunter v. Joanne Auclair |
Massachusetts |
2025-10-24 |
Application |
|
appellate-review constitutional-question due-process extraordinary-circumstances pro-se-litigation state-court |
Whether a state court's denial of a pro se litigant's application for further appellate review, coupled with alleged procedural irregularities and pot… |
| 25-506 |
Stroma Medical Corporation, et al. v. Samuel Blumberg |
California |
2025-10-23 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review due-process economic-harm punitive-damages statutory-malice substantial-evidence |
1. Whether the Due Process Clause requires California appellate courts to review punitive damages awards de novo, as this Court held in Cooper Industr… |
| 25-5934 |
David C. Kwok v. Zhong Qiu Li, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review bankruptcy-law circuit-court de-novo-review judicial-discretion legal-procedure |
1. Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit fails to distinguish
between issues raised in the trial court and arguments there made, as this… |
| 25-5922 |
Victor M. Hernandez-Carrasquillo v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-sufficiency rule-29 sentencing |
Whether evidence was sufficient to justify the district court denial of Rule 29 of the Fed. R. Crim. P.
Whether the district court committed reversib… |
| 25A456 |
Marquis Melton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Application |
|
appellate-review circuit-split firearm-possession guidelines-calculation harmless-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's harmless error analysis in sentencing guidelines calculations improperly prevents meaningful appellate review and conflic… |
| 25-5914 |
Martins Inalegwu v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-20 |
Pending |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-error variance |
Whether a district judge can render sentencing errors harmless by stating it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of any error, or by simpl… |
| 25-455 |
Thanh C. Tran v. Liberty Mutual Group Inc., et al. |
Massachusetts |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment petition-clause trial-errors |
Whether a state appellate court violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause by deeming properly preserved trial errors waived without meani… |
| 25-5888 |
Michael A. Powell v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-jurisdiction |
1. The court has without jurisdiction to chose the file a certified legal for stitioner? And petitioner did not receive it?
2. The court violated pro… |
| 25-5896 |
Shawn Travis Paschal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness-standard sentencing-review supervised-release |
Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 25-5899 |
Michael Keith Marechale v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure invited-error jury-instruction waiver |
"Courts of Appeals have stated . . . under the 'invited error' doctrine that a party may not complain on appeal of errors that he himself invited or p… |
| 25A425 |
Zhuo H. Zhong v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-10-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review court-martial factual-sufficiency firearm-prohibition jurisdiction military-justice |
Whether military courts of criminal appeals have jurisdiction to review firearm prohibition errors and factual sufficiency challenges in court-martial… |
| 25-5871 |
Isaiah Stacy Alstad v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance summary-dismissal |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE:
Whether the district court abused its discretion by Summarily
Dismissing Ground One, Conflict of Interest claim and did the Eight… |
| 25A422 |
Chanson A. Johnson v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-10-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-conviction firearms-prohibition military-justice supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a military service member's conviction for nonviolent drug use triggers a federal firearms prohibition under 18 U.S.C. § 922 when the underlyi… |
| 25-5846 |
Elwood Lewis Thomas v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2025-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-deference legal-issues miranda-waiver standard-of-review supreme-court |
Whether a Miranda waiver was voluntary is a question that will always involve a mixture of fact and law on appellate review. All geographic Federal Ci… |
| 25-424 |
Patricia Ashton Derges v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-violations due-process judicial-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether seven constitutional violations — including violations of the Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments — over 120 Brady violations, and more t… |
| 25A407 |
Michael Clayton Woodruff v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review collateral-crime-evidence constitutional-right habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance strickland-prejudice |
Whether an appellate court's de novo review of a trial court's Strickland prejudice determination can disregard the trial court's express factual find… |
| 25-5823 |
Steven Nicholas Fulton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fifth-amendment jury-verdict sixth-amendment |
Whether an appellate court may, consistent with the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, reinstate a jury's guilty verdict where the judge did not find, and th… |
| 25-413 |
Jean Dominique Morancy, Father of L.M., a Minor v. Sabrina Alex Salomon, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights-injunction due-process merits-inquiry procedural-standard younger-abstention |
1. Whether Munaf v. Geren, 553 U.S. 674 (2008)
requirement that courts consider the underlying
merits—not merely jurisdictional questions—before
absta… |
| 25A388 |
Dennis A. George, Jr. v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-10-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review court-martial due-process military-justice sexual-assault uniform-code-military-justice |
Whether a military appellate court's affirmation of a sexual assault conviction under the Uniform Code of Military Justice comports with due process a… |
| 25A390 |
John Elwood Tyrone Martin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review guilty-plea ineffective-counsel mandate-rule resentencing withdrawal |
Whether the mandate rule permits federal appellate courts to review motions to withdraw guilty pleas filed after a case is remanded for resentencing |
| 25-5779 |
Teddy Roosevelt Sibley v. Robert Jackson, Superintendent, Washington State Penitentiary, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5781 |
Michael Cobbs v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence federal-criminal-law sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
1.) Whether the Seventh Circuit errored in holding that Petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 924 (c) remains valid despite the court's decision i… |
| 25-5791 |
Raymond White v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review charging-instrument criminal-procedure plain-error plea-review presentence-report |
Whether, in conducting plain-error prejudice review of a plea taken in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, an appellate court may rely… |
| 25-5792 |
Timothy Nesdahl v. C. Garrett, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law due-process fifth-amendment legal-error liberty-interest |
Whether the due process clause of the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution requires an appellate court to address a purely legal error co… |
| 25-5770 |
Charles Anthony Holmes v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure second-amendment statutory-interpretation strickland-standard |
1. Whether 21 O.S. § 645, 644B are unconstitutional, as applied to Petitioner, because they violate the Second Amendment to the United States Constitu… |
| 25-5771 |
Jared Wade Hinman, Sr. v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process sufficiency-of-evidence trier-of-fact |
1. Did the blanket refusal, by the Appellate Court of Illinois, to 'substitute their judgement for that of the Trier of Fact ', deny an affirmative de… |
| 25A369 |
Israel Alberto Rivas-Gomez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari constitutional-rights criminal-defendant en-banc ninth-circuit |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's denial of en banc review improperly limited a criminal defendant's constitutional right to appellate review |
| 25-5755 |
Dawud C. S. Gabriel v. Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge court-access judicial-proceedings venue-jurisdiction |
1. Whether or Not the Eleventh (11th) Cir. C.O.A. Departed Far from the Accepted & Usual Course of Judicial Proceedings, As to Call for an Exercise of… |
| 25A348 |
Adriano Kruel Budri v. Greg Patrick McAllister, et al. |
Texas |
2025-09-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process pro-se sanctions texas-supreme-court |
Whether a pro se litigant was denied due process and violated statutory provisions under the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code when sanctions were … |
| 25-5732 |
Jeremy Baum v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial legal-precedent |
Whether affirming a criminal conviction on a different theory than what was presented to the jury conflicts with this Court's holdings in Cole v. Arka… |
| 25-5738 |
Mark H. Wilson v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brown-v-sanders capital-punishment eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment harmless-error |
Where the trial court in a capital case allows the State to present and argue an invalid aggravating factor to the jury in support of a death sentence… |
| 25A338 |
Earl Howard v. New York |
New York |
2025-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process leave-to-appeal state-court |
Whether a state appellate court's summary denial of leave to appeal without a substantive opinion violates a criminal defendant's due process rights t… |
| 25A339 |
Devin W. Johnson v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-challenge court-martial general-verdict military-justice sexual-misconduct |
Whether a military court's general verdict of guilt in a sexual misconduct case can be challenged based on recent legal changes affecting the soundnes… |
| 25A341 |
Maxwell A. Matthew v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review courts-martial double-jeopardy fifth-amendment military-justice trial-record |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits a military court from retrying a service member for the same offenses after a defe… |
| 25A342 |
Amanda Norris, et vir v. Safeguard Properties, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review breach-of-contract invasion-of-privacy jury-trial pro-se trespass |
Whether pro se plaintiffs can challenge a district court judgment affirmed by an appellate court after a jury trial involving claims of breach of cont… |
| 25-5694 |
Eric Brenes-Colon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clearly-erroneous findings-of-fact judicial-discretion record-support standard-of-review |
Whether a district court's findings of fact must be reversed when they are unsupported by the record? |
| 25-5692 |
Pete Szmurlo v. TK Elevator Corporation, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
anti-injunction-act appellate-review due-process rule-65 subject-matter-jurisdiction tro-duration |
1. Whether a temporary restraining order (TRO) exceeding 14 days becomes a de facto preliminary injunction requiring immediate appellate review under … |
| 25A325 |
Delmart Edward Vreeland v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-09-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari-petition due-process extraordinary-circumstances illegal-sentence jurisdictional-defect |
Whether a state court's untimely and potentially jurisdictionally defective modification of a previously acknowledged illegal sentence violates a crim… |
| 25-316 |
Kerlee Jilla v. Luzabelle Lucas-Jilla |
Florida |
2025-09-17 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
access-to-justice appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct |
1. Whether a state court's denial of
meaningful appellate review, based on
the absence of a transcript that the court
itself suppressed or failed t… |
| 25-318 |
Eric Matthew Mumaw v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus procedural-error third-circuit |
1. Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate
of Appealability?
2. Whether the District Court should … |
| 25A308 |
Ynddy Blanc v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review circuit-court conviction-standard criminal-trial jury-deadlock mistrial |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied legal standards in affirming a criminal conviction following a second trial after a prior mistrial |
| 25-5647 |
Kolby Reshaad Moore v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeal insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency murder-conviction reasonable-doubt |
WHETHER THE SECOND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND THE LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CLAIM RAISED … |
| 25-287 |
Gerardo Gonzalez-Valencia v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review interests-of-justice judicial-discretion remand-standards section-2106 statutory-interpretation |
Under 28 U.S.C. § 2106, Congress granted this Court and the courts of appeals broad authority to act in the interests of justice. The issue here is wh… |
| 25-282 |
Carina Conerly v. Sharif Tarpin |
California |
2025-09-10 |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-termination government-conspiracy |
1. WHETHER, The California Supreme Court Erred in denying Petitioner's Request For Review?
2. WHETHER, The Third Appellate District Court Erred by no… |
| 25-5600 |
In Re Lonnie W. Hubbard |
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2025-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-indictment jury-instructions mens-rea |
I. Whether the jury instructions informed the jury, as a matter of law, of the "knowingly or intentionally" mens rea of the 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) coun… |
| 25A275 |
Benjamin Jakes-Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-09 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct section-2255 |
Whether a district court's summary denial of a certificate of appealability without substantive analysis violates a criminal defendant's right to mean… |
| 25-5570 |
David Curran v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict drug-conspiracy due-process standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Third Circuit's standard of review of sufficiency of evidence in drug conspiracy cases is in conflict with other circuits and falls below … |
| 25-262 |
Aleksandr Pikus v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review legislative-compromise presumptive-prejudice prosecutorial-neglect sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act |
Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power to correct the Second Circuit's failure "to ensure that the purposes of the [Speedy Trial] Ac… |
| 25-5568 |
Donna Marie Conner v. Xfinity, United States General, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-without-prejudice federal-jurisdiction pro-se-litigation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Question not identified. |
| 25-260 |
Patrick Franklin Harris v. Ricardo R. Carter |
First Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review court-bias habeas-corpus judicial-impartiality legal-procedure section-2255 |
1. Is the 28 U.S.C. § 2255 process effective when
the impartiality of the habeas court and appellate
have been disrupted so significantly that they ca… |
| 25-5545 |
Miguel Angel Homedes v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review closing-argument due-process evidentiary-rules prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Whether improper prosecutorial statements in closing argument are sufficiently flagrant to warrant reversal, where they inserted facts not directly in… |
| 25-5547 |
Samreen Riaz v. Shazib Riaz |
California |
2025-09-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias procedural-error property-division |
Does a state supreme court's summary denial of a petition for review s291778on july 23 25—despite a documented record of procedural due process violat… |
| 25-5551 |
Ronald Buzzard, Jr. v. Jack Warner, Superintendent, Monroe Correctional Complex |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit procedural-exhaustion |
1. Did the Ninth Circuit err and abuse their discretion in failing to grant a Certificate of Appealability (CoA) based on the fact that the Washington… |
| 25-5526 |
Fouzia Lakhloufi v. Mohammad Ali Nimber Abuzanet |
Oregon |
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review covid-19-impact default-judgment dissolution-of-marriage due-process judicial-discretion |
1) Did the Oregon Court of Appeals abuse its discretion by not reversing and remanding to the trial court after it found a plain error in this dissolu… |
| 25A255 |
James Webb Hunter v. S. F. |
California |
2025-09-03 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review certiorari jurisdictional-deadline state-court supreme-court time-extension |
Whether a state appellate court's decision, when followed by a state supreme court's denial of review, constitutes a final judgment for purposes of Su… |
| 25-5517 |
Joshua Rodriguez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review evidence-rule hearsay-exception judicial-interpretation present-sense-impression reliability-standard |
Have the federal appellate courts departed too far from the purpose and intent of the present-sense impression exception to the hearsay rule, such tha… |
| 25A243 |
C. Holmes v. Granuaile, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review civil-procedure district-court motion-for-reconsideration recusal res-judicata |
Whether a district court's dismissal of a civil action as barred by res judicata can be challenged when the plaintiff alleges exceptional circumstance… |
| 25A244 |
Tremon Staley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-remand |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision on remand from the Supreme Court improperly applied federal criminal procedural standards in reviewing the pet… |
| 25A247 |
Logan A. McLeod v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review attempted-crimes court-martial factual-sufficiency military-justice ucmj |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has statutory authority to review the factual sufficiency of military court-martial convictions unde… |
| 25A220 |
Roberto Lopez-Ortiz v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-08-26 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process state-court time-extension |
Whether a state supreme court's denial of a discretionary extension of time for seeking further appellate review violates a criminal defendant's due p… |
| 25A225 |
Terrance Douglas Baker v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-26 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process mandate-compliance sentence-modification sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a district court may impose a substantially equivalent sentence through alternative sentencing enhancements after a partial reversal and reman… |
| 25-5457 |
Brian Kerry O'Keefe v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. |
Nevada |
2025-08-25 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review collateral-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenge subject-matter-jurisdiction |
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| 25-5426 |
Reginald Bertram Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-rights fair-trial sixth-amendment trial-court |
The following question stems from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' Published Opinion regarding claims asserted by Mr. Johnson.
1. Whether the U… |
| 25A212 |
Crystal Stranger v. Cleer LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Application |
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appellate-review constitutional-rights domain-transfer due-process judicial-procedure preliminary-injunction |
Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits a district court from compelling a party to testify through preselected deposition excerpts while barring tha… |
| 25A196 |
Gustavo Tijerina Sandoval v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-08-19 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review capital-murder criminal-procedure due-process life-sentence texas-criminal-law |
Whether a state appellate court's affirmance of a criminal conviction and life sentence comports with due process when the underlying trial may have i… |
| 25-5383 |
Oscar Barrios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-discretion plain-error |
Whether the absence of a binding, on-point decision of either this Court, or of the reviewing court of appeals, is enough to preclude the potential fo… |
| 25-5384 |
Christopher Kines v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations court-procedure evidence-standard fifth-circuit judicial-proceedings |
1. Is it the common practise of the Fifth Circuit to disregard
facts in the record and ignore evidence the court itself
agreed to consider?
2. Did … |
| 25-5357 |
Jessie Dejuan Sullivan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law facial-challenge second-amendment sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
First, whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) facially violates the Second Amendment?
Second, some sentencing judges assert that they would have selected the … |
| 25-5367 |
Clevern A. Granger v. Andrea Tack, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 25-172 |
Mark Mazza, et ux. v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the CWALT, Inc., Alternative Loan Trust 2006-0A10 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2006-0A10 |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review counterclaims due-process ejectment rooker-feldman summary-judgment |
Whether THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT applied the incorrect standard, when affirming the lower tribunal's judgment, which g… |
| 25-5342 |
Raymond Arthur Verrill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard |
Some sentencing judges routinely assert that they would have selected the exact same sentence regardless of any error in applying the Sentencing Guide… |
| 25-169 |
Clifford A. Lowe, et al. v. ShieldMark, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
advisory-opinion alternative-ruling appellate-review dismissal-with-prejudice judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction |
(1) Whether a district court, after first deciding it lacks subject matter jurisdiction and dismissing with prejudice a cause of action, retains the p… |
| 25-160 |
Julian Omidi and Surgery Center Management, LLC v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review consent-element criminal-statute identity-theft jury-instruction mens-rea |
1. Whether the government must prove that the defendant used a means of identification without the consent of its owner, that is, stole the identity, … |
| 25-5322 |
Derrick Lloyd v. Robert Morton |
Second Circuit |
2025-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process ineffective-assistance race-testimony strickland-standard witness-impeachment |
Whether Certiorari should be granted to resolve a conflict between the Court of Appeals Second Circuit and the United States District Court, Eastern D… |
| 25-5305 |
Victor Mondelli v. Berkeley Heights Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure-rule-17 district-court-dismissal guardian-ad-litem improper-discovery mental-health-competency |
Can a District Court dismiss a plaintiffs case by demanding improper discovery from him in connection with a Federal Rule of Civi Procure 17 inquiry a… |
| 25-152 |
Paul Mula, Jr. v. Alan Mula, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure fraudulent-concealment inquiry-notice-doctrine rico-statute-of-limitations trust-law |
A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously held that the RICO limitations period began to run when Petitioner fir… |
| 25-5294 |
Maria Navarro Martin v. Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court due-process jurisdictional-challenge notice-of-judgment procedural-error |
1. Whether petitioner was afforded due process in the decisions rendered by the
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, since that "if the underlying judg… |
| 25-137 |
Jaden T. Floyd v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review court-martial due-process military-justice pre-docketing-delay speedy-review |
Whether, in evaluating a claim for a pre-docketing due process violation, a court can effectively require an appellant to assert the right to speedy a… |
| 25A145 |
Jeremy Baum v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions sexual-trafficking sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether an appellate court's affirmance of a criminal conviction on a legal ground not presented to the original jury constitutes a violation of the d… |
| 25-5267 |
Antonio B. Nascimento-Depina v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process forensic-evidence harmless-error jury-determination |
Whether, after a state supreme court expressly acknowledging that admitting surrogate DNA-analyst testimony violated the Sixth Amendment Confrontation… |
| 25-5255 |
In Re Alex Anderson |
|
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review custody-dispute family-court legal-standard procedural-due-process support-determination |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5256 |
Leroy A. Garrett v. PDV Holding |
Third Circuit |
2025-08-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-procedure equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-technicalities procedural-fairness |
Where United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit way to manage the proceedings filed by Petitioner, according to Conley v. Gibson ; omitted … |
| 25-5236 |
Robert Annabel, II v. Sherman Campbell, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review fact-finding legal-standard religious-practice substantial-burden summary-judgment |
Did the Court of Appeals erroneously define what constitutes substantial burden upon religious practice and did it erroneously find impermissible bind… |
| 25A122 |
Muhamed Pathe Bah v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-2255 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court federal-prisoner habeas-corpus |
Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability after the district court denies habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 25-90 |
Mark S. Scott v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-due-process government-misconduct judicial-review legal-standard perjured-testimony |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit applied the wrong standard to the admission of perjured testimony that the governmen… |
| 25-5152 |
Zachary Charles Fowler v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a advisory-range appellate-review criminal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparities |
Is a sentence that falls within the advisory guideline range categorically one that does not create unwarranted disparities among defendants with simi… |
| 25-5154 |
Elijah Muhammad v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review breach-of-contract criminal-procedure due-process four-corners-doctrine plea-agreement |
1. Whether a court should only look at the "four corners" of the plea agreement language when determining whether a breach of the plea agreement occur… |
| 25-5156 |
Marlin L. Royal v. Fidencio N. Guzman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process evidence-law federal-procedure hearsay |
Whether, on de novo review, the erroneous admission of hearsay accusatory statements that the prosecution's chief witness made to the police prejudici… |
| 25-5159 |
Laron Gregory v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion jury-verdict motion-review |
Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals for the Sixth Appellate District's denial of Petitioner's "Motion to Review Judgment Regarding Defective Jury Verdic… |
| 25-5149 |
Jerrell Sims v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness sentencing-review supervised-release |
Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 25-69 |
Shan Shan Su v. Broward County, Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-court due-process equal-protection legal-precedent motion-to-dismiss |
1. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's claim that a litigant has forfeited her appellate rights and its refusal to conduct the required de novo review on a… |
| 25-62 |
Carl Ellen Puckett, Jr., et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-17 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review constitutional-rights judicial-jurisdiction procedural-due-process separation-of-powers ultra-vires |
1. When a judge ignores or removes the requirements for a mandatory hearing as set forth in the language of a statute, and thus violates the separatio… |
| 25-5108 |
Howard Griffith v. New York |
New York |
2025-07-15 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review clean-slate-act constitutional-rights criminal-record-sealing due-process rape-first-degree |
If a defendant can demonstrate that the conviction for his/her sexually violent offense is unconstitutional, should it be deemed to be a further viola… |
| 25-53 |
Brittany Valencia Martin v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-law first-amendment independent-review preservation-rule state-courts |
It is a "rule of federal constitutional law" that in "cases raising First Amendment issues," appellate courts must "make an independent examination of… |
| 25A47 |
Sandra A. Zikry, Individually, and as Parent and Natural Guardian of N. D., a Minor, et vir v. Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association, et al. |
Florida |
2025-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court due-process florida-supreme-court jurisdiction-dismissal mandatory-jurisdiction |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court improperly dismissed a mandatory jurisdiction review petition without providing substantive explanation, potentially… |
| 25-5082 |
Jake Bylsma v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review bankruptcy-fraud judicial-misconduct real-estate-fraud state-corruption third-circuit |
At its base root; this case involves a Real Estate and Bankruptcy Fraud racket OPERATED BY select members of the Pennsylvania judicial elite that incl… |
| 25-5050 |
Carlos Caraballo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law findings-of-fact sentencing-guidelines special-offense-characteristic standard-of-review |
Whether the circuit court applied the appropriate standard of review regarding a challenge to the imposition of a Sentencing Guideline Special Offense… |
| 25A19 |
Adrian Goudelock v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure jury-selection party-presentation prosecutorial-theory wholesale-exclusion |
Whether a federal appellate court may affirm a criminal conviction based on alternative legal theories not presented by the government or raised at tr… |
| 25A33 |
Raymond Poore v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari filing-deadline judicial-procedure supreme-court time-extension |
Whether a federal appellate court's judgment can be challenged through a petition for writ of certiorari after the standard filing deadline |
| 25-20 |
Ali Esseily v. Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct landlord-fraud legal-procedure |
1. Why the second circuit court of appeal misapprehended
and misinterpreted the Fourteenth Amendment of the
Constitution as "lacks an arguable basis… |
| 25-5041 |
Geovani Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process harmless-error mandate-recall sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether a court of appeals violates- due process by declining to recall a mandate
where a petitioner demonstrates that he was convicted of a non-e… |
| 25-16 |
Larry Elliott Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees court-of-appeals district-court judicial-procedure magistrate-recommendation |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ("DC Circuit") err by affirming the order of the U.S. District Court for the Distri… |
| 25-5003 |
Eric Richard Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction de-novo-resentencing fifth-circuit-interpretation mandate-rule sentencing-discretion |
Did the Fifth Circuit misapply its restrictive interpretation of the mandate rule which does not permit de novo resentencing, but limits to resentenci… |
| 24-1322 |
Barings L.L.C., et al. v. AG Centre Street Partnership, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review bankruptcy-plan chapter-11 creditor-vote material-alteration plan-confirmation |
Whether an appellate court can materially alter a consummated bankruptcy plan without permitting a new vote of creditors or whether a material alterat… |
| 24-7523 |
Sean Kerwin Bindranauth v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court deliberate-ignorance district-court jury-instructions legal-error |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner direct review where the district court fundamentally misstated the law on de… |
| 24-7508 |
Curtis Dwayne Medrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (6)IFP |
appellate-review felony-conviction firearms-possession judicial-discretion second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(1) comports with the Second Amendment as applied to a defendant with prior felony convictions, and whether appellate courts … |
| 24-7518 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith |
Florida |
2025-06-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review best-interest-standard child-custody judicial-discretion motion-denial timesharing |
Whether the trial court's denial of unsupervised timesharing was improper due to lack of specific findings of fact or conclusions of law |
| 24-7497 |
Michael Marion Cotham v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process faretta-right ineffective-assistance self-representation |
Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals' decision was 'contrary' to Faretta v. Arizona regarding termination of self-representation rights |
| 24-1308 |
Jaffan International, LLC v. Radhe Krishna Properties, LLC |
Florida |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review federal-law final-judgment res-judicata state-law substantive-law |
Whether state law can supersede federal substantive law of res judicata in determining the binding effect of a federal final judgment in state court |
| 24A1278 |
Stewart A. Feldman, et al. v. Scott Sullivan, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review commercial-litigation fifth-circuit motion-for-judgment standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether a federal appellate court correctly applied the standard for granting or denying a motion for summary judgment in a complex commercial litigat… |
| 24A1270 |
Robert Gene Rega v. Lorraine Rega Scottie |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-06-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-judgment federal-rules post-judgment-motions pro-se standard-of-review |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a civil judgment can overcome the standard of review for affirming a district court's ruling |
| 24-1293 |
Brett Morris McAlpin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split contract-law due-process plea-agreement sentencing-reform |
Should an appeal waiver in a plea agreement be enforced when the plea agreement confers no benefit on the defendant in exchange for his guilty plea, t… |
| 24-7455 |
Garland E. Williams v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-injury due-process frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a federal statute precludes procedural redress of a timely invoked constitutional injury, and whether a district court's dismissal of a compla… |
| 24-1264 |
David M. Kirk v. Citigroup Global Markets Holdings, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review due-process financial-fraud jurisdictional-challenge punitive-damages venue-transfer |
Whether the Supreme Court should review a case involving alleged financial fraud with potential punitive damages exceeding $187.2 million and involvin… |
| 24-7409 |
Pablo Jacobo Felix-Samaniego v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines |
Should the court of appeals indulge a presumption of reasonableness for a sentence where the Sentencing Commission has subsequently amended the releva… |
| 24-7396 |
Arturo Garza, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure mandate-rule resentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the mandate rule precludes or permits a district court from recalculating a defendant's Sentencing Guidelines range at resentencing based on i… |
| 24A1205 |
Leonard W. Hoffmann, et al. v. WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-06-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees district-court eighth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-standard |
Whether a federal appellate court may vacate a district court's award of attorney's fees without providing a substantive legal rationale |
| 24-7361 |
Deshaun Curtis Jones v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court judicial-review motion-to-suppress third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Appellant's Motion to Suppress |
| 24-1225 |
LaWanda D. Small v. Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, a Minnesota Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certification-standard federalism-interests judicial-procedure ninth-circuit state-law-certification |
Whether a federal court must consider federalism interests when asked to certify important and unresolved questions of state law |
| 24A1173 |
Bryant Buckhanan v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review final-judgment habeas-corpus petition-for-leave state-court supreme-court |
Whether a state supreme court's denial of a petition for leave to appeal constitutes a final judgment for purposes of federal habeas corpus review |
| 24-1210 |
Brent Andrew Brackett Arbogast v. Pfizer Inc., as Successor to Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process fair-labor-standards-act fifth-amendment rule-41-dismissal |
Does the Fifth Amendment require appellate courts to rule on a petitioner's briefed arguments and alleged facts rather than unraised theories and fact… |
| 24-7316 |
Miguel Yepson-Cortez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 24-7303 |
Donterrian M. Lavender v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeal defendant-rights federal-sentencing sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Lavender's sentence is substantively unreasonable. |
| 24-7310 |
Ian Leonard Clark v. United States District Court for the District of Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge federal-constitution judicial-interpretation state-law statutory-interpretation |
Does the Supreme Court agree with the Appellant's claim that Oregon Revised Statute 14.270 is unconstitutional? |
| 24-7289 |
Fidel Saldana Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction evidence-sufficiency inference-standard reasonable-doubt |
Whether evidence that requires a series of inferences to reach an element of an offense, rather than showing the element directly or after a single in… |
| 24-7292 |
Germaine Ramsey v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certiorari grant-vacate-remand judicial-discretion supreme-court-procedure thompson-case |
Whether the Court should grant, vacate, and remand (GVR) in light of Thompson v. United States |
| 24-1197 |
Tarek Farag v. Joseph R. Biden, former President of the United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review climate-change declaratory-relief injunctive-relief judicial-procedure scientific-evidence |
Whether the Appellate Court improperly ruled on climate change claims and denied declaratory and injunctive relief |
| 24-7257 |
Alejandro R. Duarte v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2025-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance medical-evidence self-defense waiver |
Whether defense counsel's failure to offer medical evidence supporting a self-defense claim constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel, and whether… |
| 24-1181 |
Matthew T. McLeay v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2025-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review argument-revival federal-circuit judicial-discretion legal-precedent waiver |
Whether a court can revive a waived argument previously abandoned by the government |
| 24-7215 |
In Re Jamie Varieur |
|
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process strickland-standard summary-order writ-of-mandamus |
Whether, as a matter of procedural due process, a writ of mandamus directing the Second Circuit to consider and issue a decision on the points present… |
| 24-7208 |
Cornell Slater v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals improperly allowed district courts to nullify sentencing guidelines through inoculating statements that latent errors wou… |
| 24-7174 |
In Re Babubhai Patel |
|
2025-05-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
2255-application appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-fraud miscarriage-of-justice sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit committed judicial fraud upon the court when denying Patel's Second or Successive 2255 Application, and does this constitute… |
| 24-7175 |
In Re Kevin Ogden |
|
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process jurisdiction legal-standard self-representation trial-rights |
Whether the Supreme Court of New Mexico lacks jurisdiction to rule on the petitioner's case prior to trial and applied the wrong legal standard when d… |
| 24-7179 |
Jordash Tanksley v. Deshawn Jones, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law witness-testimony |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7183 |
James Little v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
appellate-review double-jeopardy executive-order january-6-offense presidential-pardon sentencing |
Should this Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand the case for further consideration of the government's pending motion to d… |
| 24-7164 |
Martin B. Brown v. District Attorney of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure procedural-fairness |
Whether the Superior Court of Pennsylvania violated due process and equal protection rights by granting an untimely brief extension and issuing a pote… |
| 24-1140 |
Peter Allan, Sr., et al. v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights institutionalized-persons mootness-doctrine religious-land-use rluipa |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's mootness standard conflicts with Supreme Court precedent regarding policy amendments during litigation |
| 24-7149 |
Samuel James Weaver v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split federal-courts judicial-interpretation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
What standard of review should apply when a district court applies a federal sentencing guideline to undisputed facts? |
| 24-7124 |
Gary Daniel Rodgers v. Jeff Landry, Governor of Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure constitutional-challenge frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis legal-briefing |
Whether the Circuit Court erred in their rulings regarding Rodger's legal filings, procedural challenges, and motion to proceed in forma pauperis |
| 24A1053 |
Brittany Valencia Martin v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-04-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review breach-of-peace first-amendment freedom-of-expression independent-review-doctrine procedural-preservation |
Whether a state court may decline to conduct independent appellate review of a criminal conviction on First Amendment grounds based solely on the defe… |
| 24-1118 |
Dongmei Li v. Richard Peck, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal |
Whether a federal judge's refusal to recuse violates constitutional due process rights under 28 U.S.C. § 455(a) and the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 24-1079 |
Geoffrey Gray, et al. v. Washington State Department of Transportation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure ex-parte-young injunctive-relief qualified-immunity sovereign-immunity |
Should this Court grant certiorari to correct errors by the Court of Appeals regarding Ex Parte Young claims, complaint amendment opportunities, and c… |
| 24-7011 |
Donald Turner v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review de-novo-review plain-error rule-12 second-amendment sentencing-proceeding |
Whether the standard for appellate review of a Second Amendment claim raised before a sentencing proceeding and decided on the merits by the district … |
| 24-7014 |
Scott Anthony Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-courts remand sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a federal court of appeals may apply the exclusionary rule exception in the first instance on appeal and whether a federal court of appeals sh… |
| 24-6974 |
Michael Mejia v. Brittany Greene, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accountability-law appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction due-process mere-presence |
Whether the Illinois state accountability law at the time of petitioner's conviction, which omitted 'mere presence' as insufficient to convict, was un… |
| 24-1055 |
William Becker, et al. v. City of Hillsboro, Missouri |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-law land-use-regulation property-rights regulatory-taking takings-clause |
Whether the Court of Appeals improperly declined to recognize an unconstitutional regulatory taking under Nollan, Dolan, and Lucas precedents |
| 24-6927 |
Bryant Cobb v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights excessive-bail fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress |
Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals' affirmation of the denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress violates the Excessive Bail Clause and Fourth Amendmen… |
| 24-6917 |
Edmond Stanley Adams, III v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2025-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the S.C. Supreme Court erred by barring Petitioners' Federal Factual predicate that he was denied effective assistance of counsel |
| 24-1041 |
In Re Sally Priester |
|
2025-04-01 |
Dismissed |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech judicial-procedure writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Court should issue a writ of mandamus directing the First Circuit to proceed with its duty to rule on an appeal stayed for twenty-two mont… |
| 24-6886 |
Jonathan Lynn Jenkins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confession-admissibility criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-evidence harmless-error jury-role |
Whether an appellate court improperly displaces the jury's role to determine guilt by assuming error occurred when the district court improperly admit… |
| 24A917 |
Iván Vechioli Cruz, et al. v. Kiyomi M. Santos Onoda |
First Circuit |
2025-03-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review bankruptcy-court discretionary-ruling reconsideration standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether a bankruptcy court's summary judgment ruling and denial of reconsideration can be overturned when the appellants fail to demonstrate legal err… |
| 24-6830 |
Khalid Alboushari v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming a 92-month sentence without properly considering mitigating factors and procedural unreasonableness |
| 24A906 |
Deloris Phillips v. Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers' Compensation |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review final-order interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction magistrate-judge pro-se |
Whether a pro se litigant's appeal of a magistrate judge's report and recommendation can be considered jurisdictionally valid when the underlying orde… |
| 24-6815 |
Tanner Lance King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-claim appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-error ineffective-assistance plea-negotiation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability for a §2255 claim of ineffective assistance of counsel during plea negotiations w… |
| 24-999 |
Premier Nutrition Corporation, fka Joint Juice, Inc. v. Mary Beth Montera, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-20 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review circuit-court federal-certification federalism judicial-procedure state-law |
Whether a federal court must consider federalism interests when asked to certify important and unresolved questions of state law, and whether the Nint… |
| 24-991 |
Joshua Herrera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review child-sexual-offense criminal-procedure expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence psychological-evidence |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit improperly restricted expert testimony on sexual interest in children contrary to the Supreme Court's recent decision in … |
| 24-6750 |
Troy Rambaransingh v. Bank of America National Association, Individually and as Successor by Merger to LaSalle Bank, et al. |
Florida |
2025-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-jurisdiction due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-transparency separation-of-powers |
Whether district appellate courts in Florida can constitutionally restrict the Florida Supreme Court's jurisdiction through per curiam affirmances (PC… |
| 24-6725 |
Fernando Yates v. Spring Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights eeoc-brief judicial-error legal-ethics perjury |
Whether the Fifth Court of Appeals erred in ignoring relevant evidence and failing to properly consider the EEOC Amicus Brief, and whether the petitio… |
| 24-6734 |
Christina Alexandria Taylor-Loper v. Sam's Club/Walmart Associates, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
americans-with-disabilities appellate-review certification civil-rights judicial-procedure ninth-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in denying certification of a case involving Americans with disabilities |
| 24-6716 |
Deepak Deshpande v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief section-2244 section-2255 |
Whether the bar in 28 U.S.C. §2244(b)(1) applies to claims presented by Federal Prisoners in a second or successive motion to vacate under 28 U.S.C. §… |
| 24-958 |
Louis Ciminelli, Steven Aiello, Joseph Gerardi, & Alain Kaloyeros v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy legal-standard retroactivity sufficiency-challenge |
Whether, before remanding for retrial, the Double Jeopardy Clause requires an appellate court to resolve a preserved sufficiency challenge applying th… |
| 24-6704 |
Brian Jury v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals impose an improper standard for Brady claims by requiring proof of state possession of evidence and mater… |
| 24-951 |
Sergeant Fred Cueto, et al. v. Hasmik Jasmine Chinaryan, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for NEC, a Minor, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure harmless-error judicial-review standard-of-review |
Does the appellant bear the burden of proving prejudicial error in a civil case, or does the burden shift to the appellee to demonstrate harmless erro… |
| 24-6695 |
Edward Deloach v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-1521 appellate-review criminal-law document-fraud false-document sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court errs in applying a sentencing enhancement under U.S.S.G. §2A6.1(b)(2) when the defendant's submitted document was not a lien … |
| 24-6660 |
Xiaorong Lan v. University of Texas at San Antonio |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure credibility-of-evidence material-facts standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether summary judgment should be granted when genuine issues of material fact exist and evidence credibility is questioned |
| 24-6654 |
Willie Alsha Hill v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure indictment jury-instruction multiple-conspiracies trial-rights |
Whether a multiple conspiracies instruction cannot, as a matter of law, be given where a defendant proceeds to trial alone |
| 24-6657 |
Leopoldo Villareal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether an appellate court should rely on a sentencing judge's routine assertions that they would have imposed the same sentence despite a Sentencing … |
| 24-6659 |
Ronnie Lee Seward v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-criminal criminal-procedure drug-trafficking florida-law sentencing |
Did the District Court erroneously sentence Petitioner as a career criminal based on prior convictions for Florida trafficking in amphetamine? |
| 24-6642 |
Hubert Glenn Sexton, Jr. v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights counsel-waiver due-process self-representation sixth-amendment |
Whether an indigent defendant can be denied the right to present his own defense and compelled to accept representation by appointed counsel over his … |
| 24-902 |
Ruel M. Hamilton v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-21 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy jury-verdict |
Must a defendant arguing double jeopardy preclusion prove to a virtual certainty that an issue was decided by the jury in the first trial? |
| 24-878 |
Rachel Breaux v. Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, et al. |
Louisiana |
2025-02-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-court equitable-factors fair-notice judicial-estoppel |
Whether application of judicial estoppel violates fundamental principles of fair notice when a petitioner's duty to report a claim to bankruptcy court… |
| 24-6572 |
Victor Rivera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review breach-of-agreement plain-error plea-agreement second-circuit sentencing |
Did the Second Circuit err by requiring Petitioner to object with specificity at sentencing and identify a particular provision of the plea agreement … |
| 24-6562 |
Derek Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split due-process factual-basis guilty-plea sentencing-guidelines |
Whether an unconditional guilty plea admits surplus factual allegations not essential to proving an offense element, and what standard of appellate re… |
| 24-869 |
Randall P. Ewing, Jr., et ux. v. Erik Carrier, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-02-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion district-court judicial-discretion motion-to-amend |
Whether a court should dismiss a plaintiff's claim based on an unsuccessful motion to amend in a prior lawsuit when claim preclusion does not require … |
| 24-6538 |
Andrew E. Hoffman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) on his claim of ineffective ass… |
| 24-6545 |
Rangsey Arundech Pich v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation sentencing written-order |
Whether a reviewing court may find ambiguity by going beyond the words used by the district court when pronouncing the relevant decision |
| 24A777 |
ATOS, LLC, dba RideMetric v. Allstate Insurance Company |
Federal Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review due-process federal-circuit patent-review ptab-decision summary-affirmance |
Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of summarily affirming Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions without issuing reasoned opinions violates due p… |
| 24A780 |
Thomas M. Adams v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-02-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review court-martial jurisdictional-challenge military-justice service-member-rights supreme-court-procedure |
Whether a military service member's right to appeal a court-martial conviction is adequately protected when counsel with limited experience and resour… |
| 24-6512 |
In Re John David Stahlman |
|
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split federal-statute judicial-conflict statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Court of Appeals created a circuit conflict regarding the elements of a federal statute requiring proof or pleading of specific elements |
| 24-6515 |
Joseph T. Shine-Johnson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-finality merits-review procedural-grounds rule-60b |
Whether a petitioner can use Rule 60(b) to gain Relief of Judgment from a legal error that precluded merits review when habeas relief was denied on fl… |
| 24-6523 |
Timothy W. Wright, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus |
Question not identified. |
| 24A770 |
Violet Love Ray v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-standard |
Whether a federal court of appeals may deny a certificate of appealability when state appellate judges have divided on the merits of a petitioner's co… |
| 24-6485 |
David C. Lettieri v. Wyoming County Sheriffs |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review case-review court-procedure in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion procedural-rights |
Does an appeal court have the ability to ignore facts, does a judge have the right to revoke in forma pauperis without notice, and does revoking in fo… |
| 24-6486 |
Lucious Boyd v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus prisoner-rights second-petition statutory-interpretation |
Whether § 2244(b)(2) applies to habeas filings after appellate review, to all second-in-time habeas filings, or to some second-in-time filings based o… |
| 24-6469 |
Ramien Collins v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Did the appellate court commit reversible error by denying Petitioner's direct appeal due to violations of the Confrontation Clause and Sixth Amendmen… |
| 24-6456 |
Doran Maurice Smith v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure mississippi-law |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6459 |
Kyle Anthony Shephard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review consent-review criminal-law due-process judicial-procedure standard-of-review |
Should the voluntariness of a defendant's consent always be reviewed de novo? |
| 24A742 |
Jose Lewis Bosquez v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-01-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review arizona-courts certiorari criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction |
Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals violated the petitioner's constitutional due process rights in its underlying criminal case decision |
| 24A743 |
Joseph Lee Conley v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-01-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari extension-of-time federal-question jurisdiction supreme-court |
Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals' decision denying relief to the petitioner raises a substantial federal question warranting Supreme Court review |
| 24-6407 |
Samuel Tanel Crittenden v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit jury-instruction sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a conviction should be reversed and remanded for a new trial when a district court erroneously fails to give a jury instruction, despite suffi… |
| 24-6366 |
Steven Douglas Freno, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553a-analysis appellate-review booker-standard gall-factors judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether appellate courts can dispense with analyzing guideline issues when a district court would have reached the same result by varying under Booker… |
| 24-6360 |
Maximo DiazLeal-DiazLeal v. Ronald Haynes, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit |
Whether the district court's pro-forma denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in a habeas corpus petition violates due process and the gatekee… |
| 24-6330 |
Michael R. Capps v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review claim-of-error court-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure legal-objection preservation-of-issues |
To preserve a claim of error, is it enough that a party has informed the court of the action it wishes the court to take, as Rule 51(b) provides, or m… |
| 24-763 |
In Re Bo Zou |
|
2025-01-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest court-jurisdiction judicial-recusal legal-ethics procedural-irregularity |
Whether district judge John D. Russell may hear his Client's Case after leaving his former law firm one month prior, and whether the Tenth Circuit Cou… |
| 24A705 |
Angelo Graham v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-01-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-defendant due-process legal-resources pro-se supreme-court-access |
Whether a pro se criminal defendant's inability to obtain legal assistance or adequate legal resources constitutes a violation of due process or the r… |
| 24A700 |
Caed Brawner v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-01-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process florida-law post-conviction summary-affirmance |
Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights are violated when a state appellate court summarily affirms the denial of a post-conviction relie… |
| 24A703 |
Gavin Blake Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process personal-safety pretrial-release substantive-rights |
Whether a criminal defendant's pretrial release, entered into for personal safety reasons, precludes interlocutory appellate review of substantive due… |
| 24A695 |
Earl Casperson Meggison v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process florida-law post-conviction |
Whether a state appellate court's denial of post-conviction relief violates a criminal defendant's constitutional right to due process |
| 24-6303 |
Javarus T. Leach v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance post-conviction prosecutorial-misconduct |
Question not identified. |
| 24-6267 |
Robert Moore v. New York |
New York |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals judicial-precedent legal-doctrine stare-decisis supervisory-power |
Should this Court exercise its supervisory power to clearly establish what is meant by stare decisis, where the New York State Court of Appeals sancti… |
| 24-6284 |
Christopher Duncan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure imprisonment reasonableness sentencing-review supervised-release |
Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 24-6286 |
Frank James v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review charging-statute circuit-split criminal-procedure indictment-defect jurisdictional-error |
Whether a defect in an indictment is categorically a non-jurisdictional error, even if the indictment alleges conduct beyond the charging statute's sc… |
| 24-724 |
The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., et al. v. Sarah Palmquist, Individually and as Next Friend of E.P., a Minor, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-10 |
Granted |
Amici (10)Relisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split diversity-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction judgment-vacatur removal |
Whether a district court's final judgment as to completely diverse parties must be vacated when an appellate court later determines that it erred by d… |
| 24-6239 |
Charles Randy Bowlds, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process supreme-court-precedent tenth-circuit |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in its approach to re-appointment of counsel after a valid waiver of counsel, potentially contrad… |
| 24-6242 |
Kent Booher v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-brief appellate-review criminal-procedure ex-post-facto plain-error substantial-rights |
Did the Court of Appeals err in its plain error review when it held that appellant had not suffered an effect on his substantial rights that may have … |
| 24-6255 |
Taiming Zhang v. Apple, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations consumer-protection due-process product-liability racial-discrimination |
Whether Apple has committed systematic fraud, racial targeting, and constitutional violations through defective product design and judicial misconduct |
| 24A661 |
Nazir Khan v. Merit Medical Systems, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court en-banc-petition legal-reasoning patent-law summary-judgment |
Whether a district court's summary judgment ruling in a patent-related case can be affirmed without a comprehensive written opinion explaining the leg… |
| 24A645 |
Carina Conerly, et al. v. Sharif R. Tarpin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-jurisdiction pro-se procedural-dismissal |
Whether pro se litigants can overcome procedural deficiencies in a federal civil rights action when alleging systemic filing interference |
| 24-6213 |
Julien Simmons v. Consumer Assistance Group, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split federal-procedure immunity-defense statutory-interpretation |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit improperly applied precedent and misinterpreted statutory immunity defenses in a manner conflict… |
| 24-6205 |
Nelson Bruce v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, as Trustee of Stanwich Mortgage Loan Trust C, et al. |
South Carolina |
2024-12-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-law rooker-feldman-doctrine seventh-amendment |
Whether the South Carolina Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's due process rights by limiting appellate review to pleadings and refusing to conside… |
| 24-6191 |
David Godwin Frank v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review coram-nobis ineffective-assistance judicial-precedent procedural-delay writ-of-error |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling denying a writ of error coram nobis based on delay and lack of diligence is irreconcilable with controlling precede… |
| 24-6187 |
Joe Willie Cannon v. Michael Dehner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court factual-findings interlocutory-appeal qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether reviewing courts deciding qualified immunity on interlocutory appeal are permitted to reconsider the factual findings of the District Court |
| 24A616 |
Carlton Martin Volz, III v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari circuit-split federal-defender legal-complexity post-conviction |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's ruling in a complex criminal case warrants Supreme Court review due to potential circuit splits and significant legal i… |
| 24A605 |
Anthony Craig Weimer v. Montana |
Montana |
2024-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review certiorari federal-jurisdiction state-court-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the Supreme Court has jurisdiction to review a state court judgment under 28 U.S.C. § 1257 when the underlying state court decision involves a… |
| 24-6162 |
Gregory A. Tolliver v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-motion |
Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27 (c)? |
| 24-6165 |
Deshawn Drumgo v. Sergeant William Kuschel |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction judicial-review statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A596 |
William Stenger v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-conviction second-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Second Circuit correctly applied legal standards in reviewing the criminal conviction of William Stenger |
| 24-648 |
Officer Layau Eulizier v. Jose Vega-Colon, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Anthony Vega-Cruz, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-violation law-enforcement material-facts objectively-reasonable-officer qualified-immunity |
Whether a court can deny qualified immunity when no material disputed facts exist and prior Supreme Court and Circuit Court decisions found no constit… |
| 24-6120 |
Leprinceton Dewon Burks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court legal-theory mandatory-findings rule-12d |
Whether Rule 12(d) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure mandates essential findings by district courts and requires appellate remand when findin… |
| 24-6108 |
Sixto Jorge Diaz-Colon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment procedural-rules sixth-amendment |
Whether an appellate court violates due process by dismissing an appeal based solely on procedural deficiencies without addressing substantial constit… |
| 24-6113 |
Laura Hammett v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous due-process judicial-discretion summary-affirmance |
Whether the Eighth Circuit violated due process by affirming district court orders without addressing clearly erroneous findings and apparent legal er… |
| 24A550 |
Zackary Ellis Sanders v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review child-exploitation criminal-statute federal-sentencing fourth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly interpreted the scope of criminal statutes related to child exploitation under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251 and 2252 |
| 24-595 |
William L. Harris v. City of Kent, Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment stare-decisis |
Whether a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of a case involving alleged violations of Supreme Court precedent an… |
| 24A534 |
Isaac Garcia Bracamontes v. California |
California |
2024-12-03 |
Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeal criminal-appeal direct-appeal penal-code |
Whether a state court's partial denial of a criminal defendant's direct appeal under California Penal Code § 1237(a) violates the defendant's constitu… |
| 24-590 |
Brian Kelsey v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split error-preservation judicial-procedure plea-agreement preservation-standard |
What must one say to preserve an error for appellate review and does Holguin-Hernandez apply beyond sentencing reasonableness? |
| 24-6054 |
Joshua Matthew Stockton v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-interpretation legal-standards procedural-challenge supreme-court |
Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a lower court's decision regarding a civil matter involving procedu… |
| 24-585 |
Kevin J. Patten, et al. v. Travis S. Sweigart |
Third Circuit |
2024-11-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review catastrophic-injuries circuit-split federal-rules-civil-procedure third-circuit trial-bifurcation |
Whether the Third Circuit's imposition of a categorical rule against bifurcation of trials involving catastrophic injuries violates the letter and spi… |
| 24A522 |
Michael Boutin v. Chicopee Housing Authority |
Massachusetts |
2024-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review disability-accommodation due-process pro-se-litigation supreme-court-procedure time-extension |
Whether a pro se litigant with documented disabilities is entitled to an extraordinary extension of time to file a writ of certiorari based on procedu… |
| 24-6029 |
Glenna Duram v. Jeremy Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance trial-procedure |
Whether the trial court violated constitutional due process by admitting unfairly prejudicial hearsay evidence from an internet website and whether de… |
| 24A511 |
Harry Lee Goldsboro, II v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-11-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements notice-of-appeal state-supreme-court |
Whether a criminal defendant's notice of appeal to a state supreme court can be deemed timely and valid when the court dismisses the appeal without an… |
| 24-6020 |
Justin Rivera v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction federal-statute sentencing-guidelines sex-trafficking |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming a sex trafficking conviction based on a sentencing guidelines interpretation that conflicts with the Nin… |
| 24-567 |
In Re Martin Akerman |
|
2024-11-21 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process mandamus rule-39.8 second-amendment |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in denying mandamus and whether the Supreme Court's application of Rule 39.8 violated due process and obstructed acc… |
| 24-6014 |
Ronald Cox v. Ronald S. Weber, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying relief for ineffective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment by failing to recognize counsel's f… |
| 24A505 |
Shen Zhen New World I, LLC v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari corporate-entity monetary-sanctions ninth-circuit procedural-violations |
Whether a federal appellate court can impose monetary sanctions against a corporate entity for procedural violations without providing adequate notice… |
| 24-5984 |
Jason Keith-David Manners v. Bryan Morrison, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge court-relief criminal-defendant organizational-rights procedural-grounds |
Whether a criminal defendant's organizational rights can be challenged when a court denies relief based on procedural grounds |
| 24-5995 |
Manuel Espinoza-Camacho v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 24A496 |
Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation |
First Circuit |
2024-11-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-timeliness section-2254 |
Whether a habeas corpus petition filed under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 can be dismissed on procedural timeliness grounds when the petitioner seeks to challenge… |
| 24A483 |
Samuel Boima v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-challenge fourth-amendment guilty-plea search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence |
Whether a federal district court's denial of a motion to suppress evidence obtained through an allegedly unconstitutional search can be reviewed on di… |
| 24-517 |
Lance Shockley v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (6) |
appellate-review circuit-split habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-claim |
Did the Court of Appeals err in denying petitioner's application to appeal the denial of his Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claims? |
| 24-518 |
ParkerVision, Inc. v. TCL Industries Holdings Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (11)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law appellate-review due-process judicial-procedure patent-law property-rights |
Whether 35 U.S.C. § 144, which requires the Federal Circuit to issue 'opinion[s]' in PTAB appeals, is a reason-giving directive that prohibits the Fed… |
| 24-5915 |
Willie D. Orr v. Zorian Trusewych, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court in-forma-pauperis legal-procedure motion-to-proceed summary-judgment |
Did the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois err when granting defendants' summary judgment motion, and did the Seventh Circuit Co… |
| 24-5898 |
Herman Felton, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus pro-se-petition |
Why was the petitioner denied an evidentiary hearing and what constitutional violations occurred? |
| 24-5876 |
Norma Ortiz Fernandez v. La Clinica |
California |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing self-representation |
Whether the Due Process Clause applies to self-represented parties and whether the Court of Appeal infringed a federal constitutional right under the … |
| 24-478 |
Omnisun Azali v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence |
Does express statutory permission to act in self-defense trigger Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment protections requiring prosecutors to prove beyond a re… |
| 24-5857 |
Dimas Deleon Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability judicial-explanation meaningful-review petitioner-rights procedural-due-process |
Does an appellate court have an obligation to provide sufficient explanation for denying a certificate of appealability to enable a petitioner to seek… |
| 24-5868 |
William J. Webb, Jr. v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure faretta-hearing pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Delaware Supreme Court correctly determined that a criminal defendant forfeited his Sixth Amendment right to counsel when proceeding pro s… |
| 24A425 |
Brandon Green v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-appeal extension-of-time pro-se second-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the district court's decision in Mr. Green's criminal case was legally sound and properly affirmed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals |
| 24-5855 |
Andrew Fields v. New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-appeal ineffective-counsel legal-procedure trial-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5834 |
Geovani Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aiding-and-abetting appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-conflict criminal-law federal-procedure |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in its application of the Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard and is attempting to aid and abet a valid offense unde… |
| 24-5835 |
Jaylin Godbolt v. California |
California |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-grounds |
Whether the California Supreme Court's denial of a writ of habeas corpus based on procedural grounds violated the appellant's constitutional right to … |
| 24-5837 |
Ruben Aguilera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure jury-determination section-2255 |
May a petitioner in his initial § 2255 stage who has preserved the claim that a jury must decide the 'occasions' clause of the Armed Career Criminal A… |
| 24-5838 |
Joseph Boswell, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split count-of-conviction evidentiary-standard spillover-prejudice trial-strategy |
When an appellate court vacates some, but not all, counts of conviction on appeal, what standard or test should the appellate court apply to determine… |
| 24-5819 |
Oscar Robinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure plain-error plea-agreement sentencing substantial-rights |
Whether a criminal defendant meets the substantial rights prong of plain error review when sentence differences on separate counts would change absent… |
| 24-448 |
Oskana Marinaro v. Parks Ziegler, PLLC |
Virginia |
2024-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review attorney-fees due-process fourteenth-amendment pro-se-representation state-law |
Whether a state appellate court can refuse full appellate review without a transcript when state law requires review based on written pleadings |
| 24A385 |
Johnnie Leeanozg Davis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari eleventh-circuit federal-procedure legal-briefing time-extension |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in affirming the lower court's decision in Mr. Davis's case |
| 24A386 |
Thomas L. Wheeler, et al. v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2024-10-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights courts-martial due-process military-justice ucmj |
Whether the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) permits a military court to impose a conviction based on legal interpretations that potentially in… |
| 24A392 |
Rhobashi Holmes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-statute felon-in-possession firearm-possession mens-rea sentencing |
Whether a conviction for possessing a firearm after a prior felony conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) requires proof of the defendant's knowledge … |
| 24-5762 |
Angel Ayala-Vazquez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review concepcion-precedent first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Circuit improperly refused to grant a sentence reduction under the First Step Act and failed to apply Concepcion v. United States pr… |
| 24-5765 |
Robert Lance Walker v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence-sufficiency judicial-interpretation legal-precedent standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals misapplied well established precedent when determining sufficiency of the evidence presented |
| 24-5769 |
Tanya Tyson v. Quiktrip Corporation |
Oklahoma |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review default-judgment jurisdictional-challenge petition-of-error service-of-process supreme-court-procedure |
Did the Supreme Court err in dismissing the Motion to Dismiss the Default Order when it had already been certified and docketed, and in mooting compan… |
| 24-5749 |
Noel Vincent Thomas v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-11 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review failure-to-state-claim federal-rules res-judicata sovereign-immunity trial-court |
Whether the trial court erred in affirming the lower court decision based on failure to state a claim, failure to comply with federal rules, sovereign… |
| 24-5737 |
Matt Jones, aka Mack Jones v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy indictment-dismissal motion-to-suppress speedy-trial |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in not reversing the District Court's failure to dismiss an indictment based on alleged double jeopardy and speedy tri… |
| 24-5740 |
Douglas O'Neal v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process jurisdictional-issues pro-se-petition procedural-limitations |
Whether the lower court's procedural limitations improperly precluded petitioner's substantive constitutional claims and denied meaningful appellate r… |
| 24A339 |
Ricky Kamdem-Ouaffo v. Balchem Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-10-09 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-review due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure judicial-power subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Supreme Court is required to review subject-matter jurisdiction sua sponte when clear jurisdictional defects exist in lower court proceedi… |
| 24-5733 |
Brent Evan Webster v. United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review bankruptcy-court judicial-misconduct procedural-due-process property-dispute title-fraud |
Was it fair and just, or a misinterpretation of the law that Circuit Judges dismissed an appeal for failure to prosecute without further notice despit… |
| 24A336 |
Michael Tyrone Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied federal criminal procedural standards in reviewing the district court's judgment |
| 24-384 |
Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. v. DZ Reserve, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split class-certification fraud-class-action predominance rule-23 |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's 'common course of conduct' test improperly dilutes Rule 23(b)(3)'s predominance requirement by ignoring differences among … |
| 24-5708 |
Andrew Ocanas Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari constitutional-provisions jurisdictional-issues legal-petition supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5695 |
Deandre Johnson v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether the Supreme Court should review the lower court's opinion regarding constitutional claims related to sentencing and criminal procedure |
| 24-358 |
Faresha Sims v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules jury-trial seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether federal district courts have discretion to grant summary judgment when material facts are disputed or when grounds not raised by the movant ar… |
| 24-5674 |
Gilbert Carrasco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law judicial-interpretation legal-jurisdiction supreme-court-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5686 |
Luis Ernesto Prado-Crespo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law equal-protection legislative-intent racial-discrimination statutory-interpretation |
Whether a legislature can cleanse the taint of a racially discriminatory law by silent reenactment or amendment when the law was originally adopted fo… |
| 24A310 |
Rafael Antonio Bracero-Navas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-criminal-law standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742 |
| 24A313 |
Richard Alan Haase v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. |
Texas |
2024-10-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari-extension due-process mortgage-dispute property-rights texas-law |
Whether a state appellate court's interpretation of a mortgage-related legal dispute satisfies due process and preserves fundamental property rights |
| 24A304 |
Elizabeth Peters Young v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-proceeds forfeiture health-care-payor honeycutt-precedent |
Whether federal courts can impose criminal forfeiture against private health care payors following the Supreme Court's decision in Honeycutt v. United… |
| 24-344 |
James T. Foster v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-procedure obstruction-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Foster's objection to the enh… |
| 24-5613 |
In Re Lyndon C. Davis |
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2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated by the lower court's denial of his constitutional claims and ineffective assistance of couns… |
| 24-5621 |
Christopher Dallas Nelson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error-standard federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether varied definitions of the clear error standard of review for Federal Sentencing Guidelines are permissible |
| 24-5611 |
Sadick Edusei Kissi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review article-three constitutional-interpretation due-process judicial-power non-precedential-decisions |
Whether federal courts of appeals exceed Article III judicial power by issuing non-precedential decisions and whether non-precedential orders without … |
| 24-5586 |
Ziyao Jiang v. Liu Yuan, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review court-departure judicial-proceedings jurisdictional-conflict procedural-error third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court's departure from standard judicial proceedings constitutes a reversible error or jurisdictional violation |
| 24-314 |
Paul Siladi v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Connecticut |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure judicial-procedure procedural-due-process |
Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court's denial of Petitioner's appeal petition violates due process rights under the 5th and 14th Amendments by uphold… |
| 24-5572 |
Ramon Lopez-Alvarado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims due-process ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability and Appointment of Counsel, and whether multiple co… |
| 24-5571 |
Bakari Abdul Brown v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure felony-conviction ineffective-assistance stipulation |
Whether a circuit split exists regarding the ineffective assistance of counsel standard for stipulating to a defendant's prior felony conviction |
| 24-298 |
In Re Kelsey Cascadia Rose Juliana, et al. |
|
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review cheney-conditions district-court jurisdiction ninth-circuit writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the Ninth Circuit to vacate its writ of mandamus and remand to the district court where the Ninth Ci… |
| 24-5555 |
Jermall Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review government-motion judicial-procedure motion-for-summary-action summary-judgment third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in granting the Government's Motion for Summary Action |
| 24-5542 |
Timothy Allen Honea v. Fred Webb, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review court-jurisdiction judicial-procedure legal-documents service-of-process writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals improperly denied a petition for writ of certiorari related to judicial procedure and service of legal docu… |
| 24-5524 |
Kenneth W. Blair v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confidential-informant judicial-discretion motion-to-compel standard-of-review supervisory-authority |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's finding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in overruling Blair's motion to compel the disclosure of a c… |
| 24A257 |
Jonathan High v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit jurisdiction standard-of-review writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals applied the correct standard of review in affirming the petitioner's criminal conviction |
| 24-5514 |
Christopher Jensen v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law jury-instructions sentencing trial-court |
Question not identified. |
| 24-257 |
Harley Marine Services, Incorporated v. Conrad Shipyard, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-authority appellate-review clearly-erroneous contract-interpretation corporate-liability fifth-circuit-ruling |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated the fundamental principle of appellate review by affirming a trial court's ruling without evidentiary support for a… |
| 24-244 |
In Re Scott Douglas Ora, Individually, and In His Derivative Capacity as Trustee of the Leo Robin Trust, on Behalf of the Leo Robin Trust |
|
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conditions-precedent due-process mandamus trial-by-jury waiver |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue directing the Court of Appeal to remand the case to the trial court to rectify alleged due process violations … |
| 24-231 |
Rakesh Dhingra v. Charles Esposito, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation fact-finding federal-officials judicial-procedure |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in affirming the civil district court's dismissal of petitioner's civil complaint without conducting fact-f… |
| 24-218 |
Damon Balar Cook v. Patrick Covello, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court-judgment due-process insufficiency-of-evidence rule-60(b)(4) |
Whether the district court's 2002 judgment is void under Rule 60(b)(4) due to a violation of due process by denying the petitioner an opportunity to b… |
| 24-5401 |
Whitney Leigh Estep v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion witness-testimony |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying Ms. Estep's arguments regarding a witness's Fifth Amendment objection and the district court's sentencing … |
| 24A196 |
Michael Scott Hoover v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit ineffective-counsel procedural-due-process writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly applied legal standards in reviewing the defendant's criminal sentence by refusing to address k… |
| 24-188 |
Menorah Mivtachim Insurance Ltd., et al. v. John D. Sheehan, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-21 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-court claim-dismissal legal-reasoning loss-causation summary-judgment |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in affirming a summary judgment decision without providing reasons for dismissing key claims |
| 24-5341 |
Charis Mapson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure judicial-interpretation |
Question not identified. |
| 24A176 |
Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari jurisdiction pro-bono rehearing seventh-circuit |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied legal standards in its decision in Baz v. Patterson that potentially impacted the appli… |
| 24A170 |
Jonathan Zuhovitzky, et al. v. UBS AG Che 101.329.562, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-rico federal-question financial-institution investment-fraud summary-order |
Whether a civil RICO claim can be sustained against a financial institution based on alleged fraudulent investment practices involving complex interna… |
| 24-5292 |
Shawn Paul O'Brien v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility jury-instructions prosecutorial-misconduct sexual-offense |
Whether the Kansas Court of Appeals improperly upheld a conviction without requiring independent evidence of intent and improperly excluded exculpator… |
| 24-143 |
Lena Lasher v. Peter Riccio, et al. |
New Jersey |
2024-08-09 |
Denied |
|
anti-asian-racism appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process hate-crime identity-theft |
Did the Appellate Division err in dismissing a complaint alleging identity theft and anti-Asian racism as a potential hate crime, thereby potentially … |
| 24-5282 |
Darrell Gunn v. New York |
New York |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal sentencing |
Whether appellant counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to pursue a potentially meritorious pre-sentencing guilty plea withdrawal |
| 24A152 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-08-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review court-access judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process vexatious-litigant |
Whether a state court can summarily deny a pro se litigant's application for relief without providing substantive reasoning when the litigant has been… |
| 24A153 |
Arthur Lopez v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. |
California |
2024-08-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review california-courts final-judgment habeas-corpus petition-for-review supreme-court |
Whether the California Supreme Court's denial of a petition for review constitutes a final judgment that triggers federal habeas corpus review |
| 24-5253 |
Rafael Arden Jones v. Ned McCormack |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation legal-standards municipal-association |
Whether the Appellate Division's decision improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a lower court's determination of civil rights violations rel… |
| 24-5264 |
Delgen Foye v. Scott S. Harris, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-procedure fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly affirmed a district court judgment in a case involving federal sentencing guidelines and judici… |
| 24-5235 |
Nohmaan Malik v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ambiguity anders anders-procedure appellate-review circuit-split due-process guideline-commentary kisor kisor-standard |
Whether the appellate court should have dismissed under Anders and allowed Petitioner to challenge the Guideline commentary as violating due process a… |
| 24-5237 |
Warren Alexander v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing supervised-release |
criminal-sentencing |
| 24-5239 |
John C. Coleman v. Michael Swartz, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-standard fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-procedure |
Why was COLEMAN denied equal protection of law? |
| 24-124 |
Brent Brewbaker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment-6th-amendment'\n\n'Did the court of antitrust-law appellate-review article-1 constitutional-challenge constitutional-error criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error jury-instructions presumption sherman-act sixth-amendment void-for-vagueness |
Is the criminal provision of Section 1 of the Sherman Act Constitutional? |
| 24-5224 |
Michael Paul Gianfrancesco v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-proceedings criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Sentencing-reasonableness |
| 24-5225 |
Nidal M. Hasan v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review automatic-reversal criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error public-trial structural-error waller-v-georgia weaver-v-massachusetts |
Whether a court of appeals may afford no remedy for a public trial violation where the defendant objected to the closure at trial and raised the issue… |
| 24A125 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review judicial-discretion pro-se procedural-due-process state-court-procedure writ-of-mandate |
Whether a state appellate court can deny a pro se litigant's petition for writ of mandate without providing substantive reasoning |
| 24A126 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Fourth Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process judicial-discretion state-court-procedure writ-of-mandate |
Whether a state appellate court's denial of a petition for writ of mandate violates a petitioner's due process rights |
| 24-116 |
Daniel A. Madero v. Owen McGuinness |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment material-fact probable-cause summary-judgment tolan |
Whether the denial of Mr. Madero's appeal to Respondent's motion for summary judgment was in error, under this Court's ruling in Tolan, as there was a… |
| 24-5204 |
Gavin Blake Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split collateral-order-doctrine criminal-procedure interlocutory-appeal mootness pretrial-release speedy-trial-act |
Appealability-of-18-U.S.C.-§-3164-Motion-for-Pretrial-Release |
| 24-5143 |
Nicholas Nassif Hayek v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-statement district-court due-process evidence motion-to-suppress procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review |
fourth-amendment |
| 24-5116 |
Mohamad Jamal Khweis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-history-category due-process federal-crime-of-terrorism offense-level sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement sentencing-paradigm terrorism-enhancement |
Whether the Terrorism Enhancement under U.S.S.G. §3A1.4 was properly applied when the evidence failed to prove the defendant's conduct met the statuto… |
| 24-5106 |
Stoney Prior v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard-of-review circuit-split criminal-defendant-rights criminal-defense jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt recognized-defenses third-party-culpability |
Is a criminal defendant entitled to a jury instruction on any recognized defense supported by the evidence? |
| 24-52 |
Gunes Biray v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
District of Columbia |
2024-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure agency-deference agency-discretion appellate-review arbitrary-and-capricious due-process sec-enforcement securities-law securities-regulation whistleblower-protection |
Does the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) possess absolute immunity from appellate scrutiny when it arbitrarily or capriciously … |
| 24-5093 |
David Nam v. John Rivello, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Due-process |
| 24A32 |
Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-rights ninth-circuit pro-se section-1983 summary-judgment |
Whether a pro se civil rights plaintiff can challenge a district court's summary judgment dismissal under 42 U.S.C. §1983 after a Ninth Circuit panel … |
| 24A33 |
Michael Dale Iervolino v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review capital-conviction constitutional-rights criminal-appeal death-penalty due-process |
Whether the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals violated the defendant's constitutional rights by improperly denying his direct appeal in a capital case |
| 24A27 |
Cyrus Mark Sanai v. Melanie J. Lawrence, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction state-proceedings younger-abstention |
Whether federal courts must apply Younger abstention based solely on the state of proceedings at the time a complaint is filed or may consider subsequ… |
| 24-5028 |
Rafael Cardona, Sr. v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure forfeiture good-cause motion-timeliness multiplicity plain-error-review rule-12 waiver |
Whether Fed. R. Crim. P. 12, as amended in 2014, mandates a forfeiture or waiver of a multiplicity claim not timely raised in the district court, and … |
| 24A2 |
Usha Jain, et vir v. Donald Myers, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review federal-circuit judicial-sanction pro-se time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Federal Circuit improperly applied legal standards in reviewing a lower court's sanction order against pro se litigants |
| 23-7844 |
Marcus Orlando Armstrong v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-jurisdiction forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion objection sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,… |
| 23-1359 |
Fucich Contracting, Incorporated, et al. v. Shread-Kuyrkendall and Associates, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-federalism legal-reasoning reasoned-opinion state-law supervisory-authority |
Should a federal court of appeals sitting in diversity be required to issue a reasoned opinion in disposing of a case when that case involves signific… |
| 23A1174 |
Kevin Deane Jones v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-conviction eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentencing-standard statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal appellate court correctly applied the standard of review in affirming a criminal conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 3742 |
| 23-1350 |
Robert Korman, et al. v. Superior Court of California, City and County of San Francisco, et al. |
California |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure court-order due-process extrajudicial-evidence judicial-bias judicial-bias-and-prejudice judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics legal-procedure recusal |
Whether proof of a judge's commission of bias and prejudice against a litigant in a case alone mandates his immediate disqualification and reversal of… |
| 23-7814 |
James Harmon, III v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction juvenile-justice parole sentencing |
Whether sentences of life without parole, as applied to juvenile offenders, violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment… |
| 23A1162 |
Donte Parrish v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-claim criminal-procedure fourth-circuit ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Fourth Circuit correctly applied the standard for reviewing a criminal defendant's ineffective assistance of counsel claim challenging a c… |
| 23-1345 |
Danny Richard Rivers v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (17)Response RequestedRelisted (4) |
28-usc-2244(b)(2) appellate-review circuit-split federal-habeas federal-statute gatekeeping-requirements habeas-corpus second-or-successive-habeas second-or-successive-petition seven-factor-test |
Whether § 2244(b)(2) applies to second-in-time habeas filings |
| 23A1148 |
Mark Manuel Angeles Marino v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure jurisdictional-requirements petition-for-certiorari supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Whether a criminal defendant's right to file a petition for certiorari can be extended under Supreme Court Rule 13.5 when seeking review of a lower co… |
| 23-7793 |
Jesus M. Romero, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of His Minor Child, J. R. v. Bellevue Hospital, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights covid-19 due-process federal-courts free-speech jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation vaccine-mandate |
Question not identified |
| 23-7795 |
Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano, aka Fella v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the sentencing court had discretion to correct or perpetuate constitutional errors in the defendant's sentence |
| 23-7800 |
Cleon Belgrave v. Publix Supermarket, Inc., et al. |
Georgia |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review compensable-injury medical-evidence ttd-benefits workers-compensation workers-compensation,administrative-law-judge,comp |
Whether the Administrative Law Judge made correct judgments regarding the compensability of the claimant's injuries, the award of TTD benefits, and th… |
| 23-1335 |
Harley Marine Financing, LLC v. Tug Construction, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bareboat-charter clearly-erroneous contract-breach evidentiary-support findings-of-fact maritime-law trial-record vessel-condition |
Whether the Ninth Circuit violated the fundamental principle of appellate review that a finding of fact is clearly erroneous if there is no evidentiar… |
| 23-7760 |
Samreen Riaz v. Kaweah Health Medical Center, et al. |
California |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bias conflicting-issues court-procedure due-process judicial-discretion legal-error petition-for-writ-of-certiorari petition-review procedural-due-process standing |
Did the Supreme Court of California (S284004) err in denying the petition and application for stay on May 1, 2024, leaving unresolved conflicts of law… |
| 23-7763 |
Barry Steven Gahagan v. Bill Stange, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-review legal-standing standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7750 |
James Eric Moore v. Jason Koenigsfeld, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court-misconduct due-process judicial-bias jurisdictional-requirement mandate-recall recusal rule-60(b) |
civil-procedure |
| 23-7729 |
Lee Antwan Johnson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure court-review findings-of-fact judicial-procedure legal-standard lower-court standard-of-review |
What is the proper standard of review to be employed by a reviewing court examining a lower court's findings of fact? |
| 23-7704 |
Michael Jarrow v. Heath H. Orr |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech legal-procedure standing takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1304 |
Edward L. Clark, Jr. v. Deborah L. Clark |
California |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-authority legal-procedure rule-enforcement subject-matter-jurisdiction summons void-judgment |
Question not identified |
| 23-7682 |
Daniel Loyola, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit firearms plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bruen |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(0) |
| 23-7670 |
James Edward Young v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) |
| 23A1092 |
SC SJ Holdings, LLC, et al. v. Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP |
Third Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review bankruptcy contract-interpretation corporate-restructuring time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a bankruptcy court's interpretation of contractual provisions governing a corporate restructuring can be challenged through a petition for cer… |
| 23A1096 |
In Re Eric Drake |
Texas |
2024-06-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-defendant emergency-relief mandamus procedural-stay state-court |
Whether a state criminal defendant can seek emergency relief from the U.S. Supreme Court to stay state court proceedings before exhausting state appel… |
| 23-1278 |
Tsai-Fen Lee v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel guilty-plea ineffective-assistance personal-restraint plea-bargaining right-to-counsel voluntariness-of-plea |
Whether the trial court erred in accepting defendant's guilty plea when the plea was equivocal |
| 23-7613 |
Tre' Anthony James v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process factual-sufficiency jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia law-of-the-case legal-sufficiency new-trial |
Is an appellate court's reversal of a trial court's grant of a new trial reviewable? |
| 23-7608 |
Carney Turner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion life-sentence sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether, in federal criminal cases where the district court has imposed a discretionary life sentence, the courts of appeal should employ a de novo st… |
| 23-7586 |
Christopher Eugean Brown v. Sergeant Ashley Kern |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure free-speech incarceration judicial-discretion standing takings |
Did the Session Tudor PEA Ca ce JoAv ORS, fe Sesiohe Tee, tans, OEE Ge eb |
| 23-7597 |
William Hill v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-court appellate-review california-v-champman constitutional-review conviction conviction-reversal due-process first-amendment harmless-error trial-procedure |
When an appellate court concludes that a conviction for one offense violated the First Amendment, is the appellate court required to apply the harmles… |
| 23-7565 |
Juan Aguiera-Guzman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-reasoning mitigation-arguments plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion silent-record |
Whether the holding in Molina-Martinez applies to sentencing-errors, such as the clear Rule 32 violation here |
| 23-7568 |
Malek Lassiter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-statute section-924c sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court united-states-v-taylor |
Whether The Court Of Appeals Erred By Holding Lassiter's Convictions Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c) On Counts 25 And 28 Remain Lawful After United States v.… |
| 23-1245 |
David Timothy Johnson, Sr. v. Urvashi Foster, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion judicial-power jurisdiction pro-se-litigation procedural-defect shotgun-pleading |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit's questioned Orders amount to an unlawful denial of due process, an oppressive exe… |
| 23-7538 |
Jose Luis Garcia v. Kyeong Park |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process judicial-discretion medical-care medical-malpractice qualified-immunity standard-of-care summary-judgment |
Did the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming Summary Judgment When There Is Evidence of Deliberate Indifference of Dr. Park? |
| 23A1043 |
Nidal M. Hasan v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2024-05-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review capital-case court-martial military-justice service-member-rights supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a military service member convicted at court-martial is entitled to a comprehensive appellate review and potential Supreme Court review when c… |
| 23-7519 |
Willie J. Williams, aka Willie Joe Williams v. Kelvin Malher, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process federal-courts legal-error procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment |
Did the Federal Court(s) and the Appellate Court(s) error by altering and omitting the Petitioner's first allegation and denying the second docketed a… |
| 23-7526 |
Thomas Webster v. Natalie Haskins, Program Director, Haskins Residential Care |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-rules expert-witness judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings motion-timing standards-of-review |
Whether the lower court erred in allowing the defendant to introduce a crucial piece of evidence, an expert witness's report, after the closing of mot… |
| 23-1224 |
Laila N. Hirjee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-deference appellate-review deference evidentiary-standard inferences jury-verdict medical-decision prosecutorial-discretion standard-of-review weak-evidence weak-inference |
What level of deference from an appellate court is appropriate to a jury's verdict, when the verdict is based entirely on weak inferences to be drawn … |
| 23-7508 |
Matias Zarate v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guidelines reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines seventh-circuit supervised-release |
Whether a sentence within the guidelines range is unreasonable when the defendant has already served more time on supervised release than originally s… |
| 23A1025 |
Vivendi S.E., et al. v. EPAC Technologies Ltd. |
New York |
2024-05-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari final-judgment jurisdiction state-court supreme-court |
Whether a state appellate court's denial of leave to appeal constitutes a final judgment for purposes of Supreme Court certiorari jurisdiction |
| 23-7474 |
Bogdan Nicolescu v. Dave Bobby, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion judicial-explanation merits-panel pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness uncandid-briefing |
Is a 3-judge merits panel of a U.S. court of appeals at liberty, perhaps over-reliant on the opposing party's counseled but uncandid briefing, to not … |
| 23-7486 |
Edgar Vazquez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing motion-to-dismiss motion-to-suppress standard-of-review |
Whether certiorari review should be granted |
| 23A1015 |
Christina Brown v. Amazon Headquarters, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure corporate-defendant motion-to-dismiss pro-se wrongful-death |
Whether a pro se plaintiff can successfully challenge a district court's dismissal of a wrongful death action against a corporate defendant after deni… |
| 23A1010 |
Xanadu Corp, et al. v. Meor Adlin, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari federal-jurisdiction ninth-circuit statutory-interpretation writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's ruling in a case involving Xanadu Corp. improperly interpreted federal appellate procedure or substantive law |
| 23-7428 |
Robert Pann v. Julian Ulmer |
Florida |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-amendment default-judgment due-process garnishment jurisdiction notice-requirement procedural-due-process subject-matter-jurisdiction writ-of-garnishment |
Whether the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process rights were violated when: (A) the respondent provided only 16 hours' notice for … |
| 23-7433 |
Gary Allen Kachina v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus new-trial standard-of-review |
Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion for a new trial |
| 23-7438 |
Anthony Espinosa Gonzales v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review computer-generated-evidence conviction court-of-appeals due-process evidence evidence-authentication evidentiary-standards federal-rule-of-evidence-901(b)(9) federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-procedure |
Did the court of appeals' ratification of the use of computer-generated evidence to convict petitioner represent a clear departure from the requiremen… |
| 23-7414 |
Mark A. VandenBoom v. Robert Strohmeyer |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-precedent precedent pro-se pro-se-litigation |
Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judgement conflict with this court's precedents resulting in a limitation of access to the court due to the p… |
| 23-7419 |
Warren Ledominique Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) |
| 23-7421 |
Demarcus Deon Staples v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-analysis criminal-law due-process felony-conviction fifth-circuit firearm-possession plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(g)(1) |
| 23-7424 |
Manuel Sepulveda v. Laurel Harry, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions |
Whether an unreasoned blanket denial of a certificate of appealability conflicts with 28 U.S.C. § 2253 and Supreme Court precedents |
| 23-7395 |
Wesley Carl Panighetti v. California |
California |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-precedent privacy standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the state courts' determination of the facts of this case was objectively reasonable? |
| 23-7398 |
Jamaal Parker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion new-trial new-trial-standard preservation-of-error reversible-error sentencing sentencing-explanation |
Whether a new criminal trial requires trial error that would have been reversible on appeal |
| 23-1194 |
Erik Hentzen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review child-pornography harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-prong sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Can Strickland v. Washington's 'prejudice prong' be satisfied by a showing that constitutionally inadequate representation at the trial-court level ac… |
| 23A973 |
Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules petition-for-certiorari supreme-court time-extension |
Whether a criminal defendant's request for an extension of time to file a petition for certiorari constitutes a substantive legal challenge to the und… |
| 23-7340 |
Kelton Vondre Yates v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court-jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal procedural-grounds standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to equitable tolling of the statute of limitations |
| 23-7341 |
Ronald Leon Thompson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review consent constitutional-error constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-definition jury-instructions legal-standard trial-court-discretion |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the trial court's error in failing to define the term consent was constitutional harmless error |
| 23-1169 |
Michael H. Ponder v. Hans-Peter Wild |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-precedent contract-law contract-specificity legal-interpretation oral-agreement precedent sixth-circuit specificity standard-of-review |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari review where the Sixth Circuit departed from established precedent regarding the required specificity of te… |
| 23-7297 |
Marcus Bennett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review control controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-house drug-house-enhancement federal-appellate-courts possessory-interest sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Whether the drug-house sentencing enhancement applies with no evidence that the defendant maintained, held a possessory interest in, or otherwise cont… |
| 23-7292 |
Morris Fuller v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing drug-offense due-process equal-protection federal-district-court judicial-discretion maximum-penalty post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner to an above-guideline sentence based on factors that were already accounted for in the g… |
| 23-1150 |
Corey Deyon Duffey and Jarvis Dupree Ross v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-resentencing judicial-vacatur retroactivity sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Step Act's sentencing reduction provisions apply to a defendant originally sentenced before the First Step Act's enactment when that… |
| 23A940 |
Norma Ortiz Fernandez v. La Clinica |
California |
2024-04-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review due-process legal-extension miscarriage-of-justice petition-for-review pro-per |
Whether the lower appellate court misapplied facts and denied due process in a manner that constitutes a miscarriage of justice |
| 23A931 |
Vernon Fiehler v. T. Anthony Mecklenburg, et al. |
Alaska |
2024-04-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari federal-law jurisdiction state-court supreme-court |
Whether the Supreme Court of Alaska improperly exercised jurisdiction over a dispute involving federal law when determining the underlying case |
| 23A919 |
Jurgen Marku v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-04-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review conviction-challenge criminal-procedure due-process florida-state-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal's decision affirming Marku's convictions violated his constitutional due process rights or was othe… |
| 23A913 |
Richard Shean, et al. v. ZRS Management, as Manager for Arbors at Orange Park |
Florida |
2024-04-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review due-process florida-supreme-court judicial-interpretation supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's ruling on [specific legal issue] violates constitutional principles of due process or judicial interpretation |
| 23-7183 |
In Re Joshua George Nowland |
|
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-jurisdiction federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdictional-challenge legal-standing procedural-mechanism separation-of-powers treason |
Whether the US Supreme Court has jurisdiction over crimes committed on its property in Washington D.C.? |
| 23A906 |
Miracle Hurston v. Indiana Gaming Company, LLC, dba Hollywood Casino Lawenceburg |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-04-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law appellate-review federal-jurisdiction gaming-commission pro-se standard-of-review |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural challenges to a state gaming commission's decision can overcome the deferential standard of review in federal a… |
| 23-7174 |
Richard Lee David Brown v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure defense-instruction drug-convictions due-process evidence jury-instructions plain-error prior-convictions propensity-evidence |
Whether the admission of prior drug convictions constitutes impermissible propensity |
| 23-7134 |
Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure cole-application due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review |
Whether a magistrate can rely on information not provided in the affidavit when determining if there is a substantial basis to issue a warrant |
| 23-7145 |
Richard Dewayne Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3583 appellate-review circuit-split extra-statutory-factors revocation-sentences sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supervised-release |
Proper-standard-of-review-for-supervised-release-revocation-sentences |
| 23-7133 |
Garry Hines v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred when determining that Petitioner's Sentence which exceeded the statutory maximum was proper and reasonable |
| 23-7113 |
Nicholas Butler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-procedure legal-standing procedural-rights standing |
Did the Court of Appeals incorrectly deprive Mr. Smith of his right of appeal? |
| 23-7107 |
Brock Melancon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-commission |
Does this Court's decision in Kisor v. Wilkie govern the extent to which district courts may defer to the U.S. Sentencing Commission's commentary to t… |
| 23-1049 |
John-Henry Ayanbadejo v. Chanel Goosby, et al. |
Texas |
2024-03-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings seventh-amendment supreme-court-procedure |
Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the Texas… |
| 23-7051 |
Loren J. Larson, Jr. v. Joe Schmidt, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Corrections, et al. |
Alaska |
2024-03-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias sixth-amendment state-court-of-appeals structural-error systemic-bias |
Does a systemic appearance of bias from a State court of appeals create structural error to a defendant's Sixth Amendment guarantee to a fair trial? |
| 23-7025 |
Stevie Wyre v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure record-examination right-to-counsel standard-of-review state-court |
Whether the state court denied the petitioner due process by presenting a close or misleading testimony by the state's witness and without a review of… |
| 23-7032 |
Bryan Lee Gregory v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-144 28-usc-455 appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-procedure petition-renaming recusal rule-60-b standing |
Was judge allowed to rename petition |
| 23-7002 |
Ayoob Wali v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-criminal-law miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing waiver-of-appeal |
Should the court of appeals recognize a miscarriage-of-justice exception to a waiver-of-appeal provision in a federal criminal defendant's plea agreem… |
| 23A842 |
Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fourth-circuit incarcerated-petitioner legal-clinic |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied Quentin Freeman's petition for rehearing in a criminal case involving procedural or subs… |
| 23-6992 |
Reynaldo Avila-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-review legal-reasoning presentence-report sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether a federal court of appeals should vacate the sentence when the district adopts the invalid reasoning of a Presentence Report to resolve a fact… |
| 23-6994 |
Donald M. Reynolds v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review direct-appeal federal-prisoner guidelines-range resentencing retroactive-amendment sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-modification |
Whether a federal prisoner's direct appeal for sentencing issues must be remanded to the district court for resentencing when a retroactive amendment … |
| 23-1008 |
Gwyneth K. Murray-Nolan v. Scott Rubin, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-03-14 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law context due-process expressive-conduct first-amendment free-speech judicial-precedent legal-interpretation standing |
Whether conduct must convey a particularized message to be protected as expressive under the First Amendment |
| 23-6954 |
Charles B. Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-conflict criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-interpretation sentencing statutory-analysis supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-blackwell united-states-v-phipps witte-v-united-states |
Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflicts with Supreme Court precedent |
| 23A834 |
Raymond Pierson v. Northern California Collection Service, Inc. |
California |
2024-03-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari legal-filing pro-se supreme-court time-extension |
Whether a pro se litigant's competing legal demands and resource constraints constitute good cause for an extension of time to file a petition for cer… |
| 23-6946 |
Charles Awusin Inko-Tariah v. Royce C. Lamberth, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-jurisdiction procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions |
Whether the DCCA correctly denied the petition for writ of certiorari |
| 23-6904 |
Chance Joseph Seneca v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review categorical criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion due-process guidelines harmless-error judicial-procedure sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's routine assertion that the Guideli… |
| 23-963 |
Jean Dominique Morancy v. Sabrina Alex Salomon |
Florida |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction parental-rights per-curiam-affirmed racketeering standing state-court-procedure |
Does Florida's legal scheme violate constitutional rights by not allowing its state Supreme Court to review a Per Curiam Affirmed decision without an … |
| 23-971 |
Gary Waetzig v. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure courts-of-appeals final-judgment rule-41 rule-60(b) rule-60b voluntary-dismissal |
Whether a Rule 41 voluntary dismissal without prejudice is a 'final judgment, order, or proceeding' under Rule 60(b) |
| 23A821 |
William Bruce Justice v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2024-03-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-violation indigent-representation mootness-doctrine parole-revocation post-conviction-relief |
Whether South Carolina's appellate courts improperly applied the mootness doctrine in a case involving an unconstitutional parole revocation hearing t… |
| 23A817 |
Misop Baynun v. Bruce Hiltunen, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2024-03-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review due-process medical-disability pro-se time-extension veterans-rights |
Whether due process requires equitable tolling of the certiorari filing deadline when a pro se litigant with a documented medical disability experienc… |
| 23A819 |
Sidikatu Raji v. Omaha Property Manager, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-03-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction interlocutory-appeal preliminary-injunction |
Whether a district court abuses its discretion in denying a motion to dissolve a preliminary injunction when reviewing the underlying factual findings… |
| 23-6884 |
Alexander Yoichi Duberek v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 23A812 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-03-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-defendant due-process post-conviction summary-denial |
Whether a state appellate court's summary denial of a post-conviction relief application without a reasoned opinion violates a criminal defendant's du… |
| 23-6861 |
Tyree Ford v. Carmine Marceno, Sheriff, Lee County, Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions disciplinary-proceedings due-process jurisdiction professional-conduct standing statutory-provisions supreme-court |
whether-state-attorney-can-be-disciplined-for-misconduct |
| 23-6846 |
In Re Shirron Jozette Gayles-Zanders |
|
2024-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mandamus nevada-supreme-court post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Nevada Supreme Court violated petitioner's fundamental due process and equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment by denying her pet… |
| 23-6837 |
David Carbonaro v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review computer-crime computer-use criminal-procedure image-quantity judicial-discretion number-of-images reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements |
Whether the Court erred in its application of the sentencing enhancements and the reasonableness of the sentence imposed |
| 23-6841 |
Ronald D. Houston v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review booker-standard circuit-split crime-of-violence gall-v-united-states procedural-error reasonableness-review resisting-arrest sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
whether-the-circuits-may-forego-appellate-review-of-significant-procedural-error-under-gall |
| 23A781 |
Lawrence L. Crawford v. Warden of Lieber Correctional Institution |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review court-procedure due-process fourth-circuit judicial-jurisdiction mandate-rule |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals violated due process and judicial precedent by improperly declining jurisdiction over its own remand order |
| 23-6814 |
Martin Akerman v. Court of Appeals of Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-records due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-mismanagement procedural-violations spoliation |
Did the Arlington Circuit Court's handling of spoliation allegations and procedural violations, including denial of access to court records, violate t… |
| 23-6815 |
Martin Akerman v. Virginia State Corporation Commission, et al. |
Virginia |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-implications constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fraud jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge state-corporation-commission |
Does the Supreme Court of Virginia's refusal to review the State Corporation Commission's (SCC) alleged introduction of fraudulent evidence and its pr… |
| 23-6818 |
Romeo Kevante Pride v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Pride's argument that the District Court committed reversible error by imposing a 110… |
| 23-6809 |
Warren Lee Mackey v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence harmless-error judicial-precedent prejudice prejudice-standard trial-testimony witness-bolstering witness-testimony |
Whether this Court should adopt a test that vacates a conviction where there is a 'reasonable probability' that improper bolstering or vouching testim… |
| 23-912 |
Dora L. Adkins v. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process magistrate-judge standing |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit properly affirmed the district court's and magistrate judge's orders |
| 23-6799 |
Leon King v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion legal-reasoning sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) requires a sentencing court which rejects a defendant's nonfrivilous arguments in favor of a lower sentence to explain its… |
| 23-887 |
In Re Eugene Misquith |
|
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review magistrate-judge magistrate-review procedural-fairness |
Did the Eleventh Circuit's opinion improperly introduce the Magistrate Judge and deny due process by providing no reasoning? |
| 23-6754 |
Rodwick F. Abadam v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-violation miscarriage-of-justice plea-agreement second-amendment sentencing sentencing-error |
Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that sentencing errors that violated Mr. Abadam's Second Amendment rights can amount to a 'miscarriag… |
| 23-6733 |
Lunick Janvier v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling judicial-interpretation legal-standard standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals' decision on equitable tolling is in direct conflict with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based on si… |
| 23-6734 |
C. Holmes v. Anne Milgram, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appeal appellate-review article-iii certification certification-of-appeal civil-procedure de-novo-review judicial-procedure standing stay substantial-rights |
Whether the lower appellate court misapprehends appealability and/or overlooks the request and denial in the district court for certification of appea… |
| 23-6724 |
Terrence Michael Taylor, aka Terrance Michael Taylor v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-922g appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-claim double-jeopardy firearm-possession guilty-plea plea-colloquy statutory-interpretation unit-of-prosecution |
Does a defendant's guilty plea to an indictment charging multiple violations of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), unlawful firearm possession, waive his Double Jeop… |
| 23-6712 |
Abner Renato Natareno-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 23-6718 |
Larry David Doak v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process federal-review indian-law judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Whether Oklahoma violated its own rules of criminal procedure retroactively by applying a new rule to Petitioner's post-conviction proceedings |
| 23-6704 |
Joshua P. Lindsey v. Sarah Evans Barker, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-standards criminal-conviction due-process free-speech ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 23-6695 |
Douglas W. Curtis v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa appellate-review due-process fourteenth-amendment novel-state-procedural-default plea-offer procedural-default standard-of-review state-procedural-default |
Whether Petitioner was denied his Fourteenth Amendment right to the Due Process of Law |
| 23-6697 |
Jorge Hernandez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-reasoning discretion due-process judicial-discretion mandate mandate-recall motion-denial procedural-due-process reasoning |
Did the appellate court abuse its discretion by failing to provide any reasoning to permit meaningful appellate review? |
| 23-848 |
Wen Lian Patience v. Shannon Jackson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-amendment-immunity judicial-misconduct pleading-requirements prosecutorial-misconduct section-1983-claim |
Did the Fifth Circuit and district court exhibit negligence, violate their discretion, and permit judicial misconduct? |
| 23-850 |
Lucinda Jones v. David W. McKeague, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment-act due-process due-process-claim federal-statute judicial-review jurisdiction non-merit-claim standing |
Does the Declaratory Act of 28 U.S.C. § 2201 afford jurisdiction over non-merit claims for due-process-violations? |
| 23-851 |
John Doe v. Purdue University, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review bias civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine constitutional-adjudication due-process federal-procedure judicial-bias recusal recusal-standard standing |
Should this Court exercise its supervisory authority to preserve the appearance and fact of justice by requiring review now of a denial of recusal for… |
| 23-6674 |
Terry Eugene Hambrick v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-proceedings plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review standards-of-review supervisory-power |
Whether the district court has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings in expanding the criteria for plain error review on appeal |
| 23-6680 |
Mark Mayo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error rule-52(b) structural-error |
Does a clear or obvious structural error always, or at least ordinarily, require relief under the plain-error standard of Federal Rule of Criminal Pro… |
| 23-6682 |
Karyn M. Kelley v. Kevin M. Kelley |
New Hampshire |
2024-02-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-attachment judicial-procedure property-rights standing |
Did the highest state court err in affirming orders that deprived the petitioner of property without a hearing or due process? |
| 23A726 |
Juan Marquis Holiday v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aiding-and-abetting appellate-review circuit-split crime-of-violence robbery sentencing-enhancement |
Whether 'aiding and abetting a robbery' qualifies as a crime of violence under federal criminal statutes |
| 23-6664 |
Robert Edward Sindaco v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review bias constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process and a fair trial due to bias, prejudice, and ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 23-6650 |
Pablo Guzman v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-prejudice federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus jury-instruction lockhart-precedent lockhart-v-fretwell prejudice state-court-decision supreme-court-precedent |
Does Lockhart v. Fretwell prevent federal habeas corpus relief despite prejudice when Supreme Court precedent at trial was not clearly inconsistent wi… |
| 23A710 |
Pushpa Shekar v. PHH Mortgage Group |
Illinois |
2024-02-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review discriminatory-practices due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion petition-for-leave |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses prohibit a state court from arbitrarily granting or denying late-filed pet… |
| 23-6634 |
Andres Colon-Miranda v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process litigation-strategy package-doctrine sentencing-guidelines summary-dismissal ussg-3d1.2 |
Appropriate-standard-of-review |
| 23-6618 |
Mabior M. Mabior v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination hearsay hearsay-exception ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment testimonial-statement testimonial-statements |
Is a defendant's right to confrontation under the Sixth Amendment violated when testimonial statements are admitted for the truth of the matters asser… |
| 23-823 |
Maurice J. Salem v. Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-ethics judicial-recusal judicial-system public-confidence rule-12b sanctions standing |
whether-enforcing-28-usc-455(a)-will-restore-public-confidence |
| 23-6599 |
Devon Blevins v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1 appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure first-degree-murder insufficiency-of-evidence jackson-v-virginia standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the court of appeals failed to correctly apply the standard of review for claims of insufficiency of evidence to support conviction of a crime… |
| 23-6585 |
Arnulfo Fagot-Maximo v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit government-vouching habeas-corpus witness-testimony |
Should a writ of certiorari be granted since the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in not granting a Certificate of Appealability |
| 23-6587 |
Pedro Andres Bravo v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 appellate-review federal-habeas-review final-judgment gonzalez-v-thaler habeas-corpus state-court-finality state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the Court's holding in Gonzalez v. Thaler, 565 U.S. 134 (2012), that a judgment becomes final (pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1)(A)) when the… |
| 23-797 |
Marco Gonzalez v. Salem Shahin, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rules judicial-discretion jurisdiction notice-of-appeal post-judgment-motion time-extension |
Does an unobjected-to extension of time to file a post-judgment motion, even though unauthorized by the civil rules, permit appellate review of the un… |
| 23-6546 |
Paul R. Hansmeier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus rule-of-lenity sentencing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether an indictment that affirmatively alleges a course of conduct outside the scope of the charged offense can be the basis for a conviction |
| 23A673 |
Andrew Smart v. Jamie LaManna |
Second Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-criminal-conviction |
Whether the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief to a state prisoner was improper under federal constitutional standards for reviewing stat… |
| 23-766 |
Scott Douglas Ora v. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce |
California |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review burden-of-proof conditions-precedent due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review right-to-jury-trial standard-of-proof waiver |
Did the Court of Appeal violate the due process rights of Appellant? |
| 23-761 |
Kionn Alls v. Florida Department of Revenue, on Behalf of Sharita Denise Gosa |
Florida |
2024-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection fundamental-error judicial-duty jurisdiction jurisdictional-error procedural-due-process standing |
Do our state court of appeals have an unrenunciable judicial duty to correct jurisdictional or fundamental errors that were preserved at trial, were r… |
| 23-757 |
Relish Labs LLC, et al. v. Grubhub Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review clear-error de-novo de-novo-review likelihood-of-confusion multifactor-test standard-of-review trademark-infringement |
Whether the determination of a likelihood of confusion for trademark infringement is a factual finding, reviewable for clear error, or a legal conclus… |
| 23-6465 |
Lewis Slaughter v. New York |
New York |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-petition notice opportunity-to-be-heard property-seizure supreme-court takings |
Whether the petitioners' due process rights were violated by the government's failure to provide adequate notice and opportunity to be heard before se… |
| 23-6476 |
Phillip Thomas Green v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing presumption-of-reasonableness rebuttal sentencing-guidelines |
What is required of defendants to provide a genuine rebuttal of the presumption of reasonableness for federal sentences under due process? |
| 23-6482 |
Christopher J. Barnett v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-rule constitutional-provisions conviction-integrity criminal-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-jurisdiction petition-review prosecutorial-misconduct supreme-court-procedure writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the trial court and the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals erred in continuing to hold that the defendant's conviction stands despite a violat… |
| 23-6461 |
Luis Armando Jimenez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-justice federal-sentencing guidelines judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Under Rita v. United States, can a district court ignore a party's nonfrivolous arguments for a greater or lesser sentence |
| 23-6462 |
Arthur Harris v. New Rez, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-procedure patent separation-of-powers standing supreme-court takings writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower court's decision against the petitioner is unconstitutional and a violation of the United States Constitution |
| 23-6464 |
Michael Edward Aguilar v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-code due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-law statutory-ambiguity timeliness |
Whether the dismissal of a criminal appeal as untimely violates the Due Process Clause and the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counse… |
| 23-6439 |
Jennifer Lynn Mothershead v. Deborah Jo Wofford, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review comity habeas-corpus merits-determination procedural-bar state-court-ruling |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision violates Harris v. Reed, 489 U.S. 255 (1989) and the bedrock habeas corpus principle of comity |
| 23-6442 |
Pedro Hernandez Zarate v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process en-banc-hearing meaningful-review statutory-right statutory-right-to-appeal writ-of-certiorari |
Whether due process and the statutory right to appeal require the Court of Appeals to adequately explain the decisions made in a defendant's case in o… |
| 23-6446 |
William Riley Gaul v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy judicial-relief jury-instructions jury-verdict logical-inconsistency multiple-count-presentment mutually-exclusive-verdicts powell-v-texas sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a jury's positive finding of guilt in one count of a multiple count presentment is mutually exclusive from its illogical, but positive finding… |
| 23-6441 |
Marc Hernandez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure integrity-of-courts judicial-integrity plain-error structural-error substantial-rights |
Should this Court's decision in United States v. Olano be overruled in part? |
| 23A621 |
Darryl Heffner v. Timothy Heffner, et al. |
Texas |
2024-01-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review direct-appeal fact-finding property-dispute stay-of-proceedings trial-court-jurisdiction |
Whether a trial court may conduct further fact-finding proceedings during a pending direct appeal when the underlying case has already received a fina… |
| 23-6404 |
Jamar Hunter v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-review constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence |
Was the Third Circuit's reversal of Petitioner's suppression of physical evidence in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constituti… |
| 23-6406 |
Jamal Eberhardt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-standard criminal-procedure due-process excessive-sentence judicial-discretion reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review third-circuit |
Did the Third Circuit error by not finding Mr. Eberhardt's sentence was harsh and excessive? |
| 23A605 |
Robert Holton v. Robert Henon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review disability legal-counsel third-circuit time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Third Circuit's prior appellate decision in favor of the petitioner warrants Supreme Court review given the unique circumstances of counse… |
| 23A594 |
Joseph Randolph Mays v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court federal-tort-claims-act motion-to-dismiss pro-se-litigant procedural-default |
Whether a pro se litigant's Federal Tort Claims Act lawsuit against the United States can be dismissed with prejudice when the plaintiff fails to time… |
| 23-6386 |
Michael Andrew King, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review credibility-determination criminal-procedure due-process due-process-rights evidence jury-instructions jury-trial mask-obstruction witness-credibility witness-testimony |
Whether an appellate court's traditional deference to credibility determinations made by jurors in returning a guilty verdict should give way where th… |
| 23-6376 |
Judy Thorpe v. Board of Trustees, Public Employees' Retirement System |
New Jersey |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-decision administrative-law appellate-review due-process government-benefits judicial-discretion manifest-error pension public-employee-retirement retirement state-law state-pension |
Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Deny Certification and Not Fairly and Equitably Rev… |
| 23-6342 |
Ya-Sin El-Amin Shakir v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review jury-finding mental-health sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a court may uphold a conviction where the record demonstrates insufficient evidence to support the finding of guilt |
| 23-6328 |
Andrew Fields, III v. Patrick J. Bouldin, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-justification pleadings procedural-dismissal standing |
Whether the Avgellet Couet ceroRed in dismisSinG 4 prellants Appeal Soe dniluee to cure A defect |
| 23-6329 |
Russell G. Finnegan v. David L. Chidester |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-fees due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure jurisdiction pro-se-litigation signature-requirement standing |
Are the orders from the Court of Appeals valid absent an authorized signature of a judicial officer? |
| 23A579 |
Deonte Marques Curry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review final-judgment plain-error preservation-of-error rule-52b sua-sponte |
Whether the exception to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) applies to a district court's sua sponte amendment of a final judgment when a defend… |
| 23-6315 |
In Re Miguel Antonio Garcia |
|
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements lower-court-interpretation precedent-analysis res-judicata rooker-feldman standing |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the case based on the Rooker-Feldman doctrine |
| 23-6311 |
David Clum, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process judicial-review manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice supervisory-powers writ-of-certiorari |
Should this court grant the writ where it is shown from the record that the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has so far departed from the accepted an… |
| 23-6314 |
Dana Jahmal Stevenson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review attempt attempt-offense controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a prior sentence for a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) qualifies as a 'controlled-substance-offense' under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(a)(4)(A) |
| 23-6305 |
Brendan Hunt v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-fact first-amendment free-speech independent-review speech-protection standard-of-review true-threat |
Whether the appellate standard of review of a jury's determination that a particular expression constitutes a 'true threat' should be deferential or d… |
| 23-654 |
Malka Leeal v. Newrez LLC, dba Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review case-caption civil-procedure claims-raised-or-could-have-been-raised district-court final-judgment legal-obligation res-judicata same-transaction summary-judgment |
Whether the district court erred in its burden to establish all four elements of res-judicata-and-conduct-de-novo-review |
| 23-650 |
Laura Jordan and Mark Jordan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
alternative-theory appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions structural-error sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether an appellate court's harmless-error analysis must decline to find constitutional alternative theory error harmless |
| 23A544 |
Patrick Aboite v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
18-U.S.C.-922(g) appellate-review criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-offense sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a federal sentencing enhancement for a felon in possession of a firearm was properly applied and whether the resulting sentence was reasonable… |
| 23-6243 |
Offie Curtis Brown, Jr. v. North Carolina Department of Public Safety, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions first-amendment free-speech jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question public-concern public-employee retaliation statutory-provisions |
Whether the First Amendment protects the right of a public employee to speak on matters of public concern without fear of retaliation |
| 23-631 |
Hollis Morrison Greenlaw, et al. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure harmless-error intent-to-defraud jury-instructions scheme-to-defraud structural-error |
Whether harmless-error analysis of jury instructions that omitted or misdefined an element must decline to find that constitutional error harmless |
| 23A531 |
Jamaal A. Hameen v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-sentencing eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction sentence-revocation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a federal appellate court correctly applied sentencing guidelines and standards of review in a criminal case involving sentence revocation |
| 23A536 |
Martin Akerman v. Lloyd J. Austin, III, Secretary of Defense, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari-extension fourth-circuit judicial-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's interpretation of the relevant statute improperly limits the scope of judicial review in federal appellate proceedings |
| 23-6208 |
Pleadro J. Scott v. Miami Dade County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
advocacy appellate-process appellate-review case-law civil-procedure court-procedure discretion due-process incomplete-record judicial-review legal-interpretation statutory-construction |
Whether the court of appeals erred in failing to exercise its discretion to consider additional advocacy from a party, where the judgment was based on… |
| 23-6187 |
Jamar Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Rehearing |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-validity criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sentencing waiver-of-counsel waiver-of-rights |
Whether an uncounseled felony guilty plea is Constitutionally valid |
| 23-6192 |
David Lewis Holland v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review case-law constitutional-law constitutional-provision criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process right-to-counsel speedy-trial trial-preparation |
Whether the new Speedy Trial requirement created by the Texas 7th Court of Appeals in the instant case is in conflict with current case law precedent,… |
| 23-6169 |
Juan Carlos Soto v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-USC-3553 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit-court remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Why does the Yeh Circuit Court of appeals Remand (Wmost Cases Where all of the appeal ant's Non-Frivolous Sentencing arguments are Not addressed by th… |
| 23-6179 |
Anibal Miranda-Montanez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jury-instructions legal-sufficiency procedural-challenge standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-evidence verdict-challenge |
Whether the evidence was insufficient for the verdict to stand |
| 23-6181 |
Deryke Matthew Pfeifer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-issue legal-standard procedural-question property-rights statutory-provisions takings |
Whether the U.S. Government violated the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment by failing to compensate the petitioner for the taking of their propert… |
| 23-6186 |
Guillermo Borboa, aka Omar Gabriel Borboa v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 abuse-of-power appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Was the District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in error in dismissing a MOTION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DUE TO COURTS LACK OF SUBJECT-MAT… |
| 23A512 |
Kimra Bowers v. Payson City |
Utah |
2023-12-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review de-novo-review disorderly-conduct final-judgment jurisdiction justice-court |
Whether a district court's decision in an appeal from a justice court is final and non-appealable when the district court does not rule on the constit… |
| 23-591 |
Althea Miley v. Deborah J. Burns, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-proceedings res-judicata rule-12b6 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Northern District Court of Georgia; and the Georgia State Courts' adherence to issue preclusion doctrin… |
| 23-599 |
Miriam Gladden v. Rayna Woodford, et al. |
Maryland |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure defective-motion due-process ex-parte-communication fundamental-rights judicial-bias pro-se standing |
Whether the Appellate Court's failure to acknowledge the plain error of Woodfords bringing a defective and improper motion and that the lower court al… |
| 23-602 |
William Shupp v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process evitts-v-lucey fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel louisiana-supreme-court out-of-time-appeal writ-of-certiorari |
Whether Louisiana's denial of Shupp's request to file an out-of-time application for writ of certiorari to the Louisiana Supreme Court, despite the in… |
| 23A503 |
Kathy Allen, et al. v. L3Harris Technologies, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review due-process erisa judicial-explanation life-insurance rule-60-motion |
Whether the district court and appellate courts violated due process by failing to provide a substantive explanation for denying a Rule 60 motion in a… |
| 23-6146 |
Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech harmless-error ineffective-assistance obscenity standing state-court-decision surveillance |
Whether the 'Miller test' to prove obscenity violates the First Amendment |
| 23-6147 |
Brett Alexander Jones v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit habeas-corpus state-courts |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is required to issue a COA if a state high court has found a substantial showing of a denial of a constitut… |
| 23-578 |
Christopher Kinzy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion gall-standard gall-v-united-states guidelines judicial-explanation rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court can insulate from vacatur a sentence based on an erroneously enhanced Guidelines range |
| 23-6112 |
Derek Paul Smyer v. Bryan D. Phillips, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus judicial-discretion ninth-circuit standing third-party-culpability |
Whether the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it failed or refused to apply the correct legal standard in evaluating the plainti… |
| 23-6114 |
Andre Jackson v. California |
California |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights court-opinion due-process evidentiary-issues ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-issue legal-relief procedural-error record-development |
Whether APPELLATE Counsel's PERFORMANCE WAS deFiciut uNneteR StrickiANnd |
| 23-6117 |
Gordon Lagerstrom v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion procedural-motion standing |
Whether a single circuit court judge may deny a motion for certificate of appealability under Fed. R. App. P. 27(c)? |
| 23-6092 |
Joe Lawrence Gallegos v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-enterprise criminal-law federal-courts gang-status gang-violence purpose-doctrine self-defense self-preservation statutory-interpretation vicar-murder |
Whether acting on the immediate instinct for self-preservation constitutes acting for the purpose of 'maintaining or increasing position in an enterpr… |
| 23-6097 |
Montrez Duncan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vindictiveness conviction criminal-sentencing double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion resentencing sentencing unconstitutional |
Is a court constitutionally vindictive in violation of due process when, after it vacates the conviction and sentence on a count that was deemed uncon… |
| 23-6098 |
Ricardo Dinnall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-discretion sentencing-reduction sentencing-reform statutory-interpretation |
Whether Concepcion v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2389 (2022), requires district courts to consider all nonfrivolous arguments raised by the patties in … |
| 23-6104 |
Michael Venetez McRae v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-precedent jurisdiction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal court erred in imposing an illegal sentence that exceeded the statutory maximum penalty |
| 23A466 |
Melissa Ing v. Tufts University |
First Circuit |
2023-11-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review first-circuit judicial-procedure supreme-court-rule time-extension writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the First Circuit correctly applied the standard for granting an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari under Supreme C… |
| 23A458 |
Tony Ford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-jurisdiction sentencing-guidelines writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a federal appellate court correctly applied sentencing guidelines and standards of review in affirming a criminal defendant's sentence upon re… |
| 23A460 |
Sean M. Donahue v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-right court-appointed-counsel ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief unitary-review |
Whether a court-appointed criminal defense counsel violates a defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel by forcing the defen… |
| 23-549 |
Harold Jean-Baptiste v. Department of Justice, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-of-columbia federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdictional-error subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District Court of Columbia erred in issuing an improper Order stating the Court had no subject matter jurisd… |
| 23-6079 |
Santos David Ramirez-Ortega v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 23-6083 |
Chalmer Detling, II, aka Chuck Detling v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review due-process judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard speedy-trial-act sua-sponte summary-reversal supervisory-power |
Was the panel's decision proper in light of Day v. McDonough? |
| 23-6053 |
Nathan Nixon v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process first-district-court florida-supreme-court free-speech jurisdiction public-records standing |
Whether the First District Court of Appeals of the State of Florida erred in denying Petitioner's federal constitutional claims |
| 23-529 |
Matthew Hayko v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review credibility criminal-procedure evidence-weighing harmless-error sixth-amendment trial-by-jury witness-credibility |
Whether an appellate court can violate a defendant's right to trial by jury under the Sixth Amendment by weighing evidence and judging the credibility… |
| 23-6025 |
Deunta Finch v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing… |
| 23A432 |
Diamond J. Wholesale, LLC, dba Gabsons Novelties v. Top Tobacco, L.P., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review circuit-court federal-jurisdiction final-judgment statutory-interpretation unpublished-opinion |
Whether a federal appellate court's unpublished opinion can constitute a final judgment for purposes of Supreme Court review |
| 23-6005 |
Ehab Sadeek v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process plain-error procedural-error sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-wooden |
Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the petitioner's sentence based on a pattern-of-activity enhancement and a cross-reference enhancement |
| 23-5993 |
Jose Miguel Montemayor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error defendant's-guilt fourth-amendment harmless-error independent-evidence judicial-standard prejudicial-effect suppression-error |
Whether an appeals court can conclude that a Fourth Amendment error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt without juxtaposing the error's prejudicial … |
| 23A425 |
Towaki Komatsu v. Urban Pathways, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure court-access judicial-sanctions pro-se vexatious-litigation |
Whether a pro se litigant's repeated filing of vexatious legal actions can constitute an abuse of judicial process warranting sanctions |
| 23A427 |
Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-enforcement antitrust appellate-review ftc-act medical-practice statutory-authority |
Whether the Federal Trade Commission's administrative enforcement action against a medical practice for alleged anticompetitive conduct exceeds its st… |
| 23-5983 |
Eric Spencer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-procedure de-novo-review district-court evidence evidence-rules hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review |
Should the Court of Appeals apply an abuse of discretion standard or engage in de novo review when reviewing a district court's ruling to admit hearsa… |
| 23-5978 |
Brian Keith Person, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-voluntary plea-agreement plea-bargaining voluntariness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Person's appeal pursuant to an appeal waiver when he argued that his plea was not knowing and volun… |
| 23A414 |
Monterial Wesley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review discretionary-authority extraordinary-circumstances federal-criminal-law sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a district court has discretionary authority to reduce a federal criminal sentence under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A) when a defendant demonstrat… |
| 23A406 |
Sylvester Cunningham v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari conviction eighth-circuit federal-public-defender sentencing |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the petitioner's conviction and sentence without proper consideration of the legal argu… |
| 23-5951 |
Rodney L. Love v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-reasons federal-law retroactivity sentence-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-retroactive changes in federal law can serve as 'extraordinary and compelling reasons' warranting a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3… |
| 23-5935 |
Michael Ray Thomas v. Adam Douglas, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct standing sua-sponte-appointment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether a court of appeals may force a petitioner to proceed on appeal without the assistance of counsel after a district court ordered the appointmen… |
| 23-457 |
Terrance Nelson Cates v. Zeltiq Aesthetics, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jury-trial medical-evidence summary-judgment |
Whether a circuit court must review evidence considered on a motion for reconsideration when reviewing a grant of summary judgment |
| 23-5915 |
Keith Alexander v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error standard-of-review |
Whether the district court abused its discretion when it refused to appoint counsel for the appellant and denied the appellant due process and the rig… |
| 23A389 |
Guillermo Borboa aka Omar Gabriel Borboa v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-10-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit federal-prisoner habeas-corpus post-conviction |
Whether a federal prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability after being denied relief on federal habeas corpus claims |
| 23-5901 |
Albert Randolph v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance new-trial |
Court of Criminal Appeals error denying Writ of Habeas Corpus for New Trial |
| 23-5904 |
Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure excusable-neglect ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel postconviction-motion sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals misapplied the standard of review applicable to assertion of justifiable excuse or excusable neglect for belated… |
| 23-5879 |
Richard Wayne Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge sentencing standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a motion pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c) is a part of the mitigation of a defendant's sentence that can challenge the subject-matter jurisdict… |
| 23-5886 |
Phillip Charles Gibbs v. Becky Carl, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review automatic-reversal constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment state-practice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington unconstitutional-state-practice |
Whether prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984), is shown by an attorney's failure to preserve a claim that would result in an a… |
| 23-5858 |
Anthony Schneider v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea jurisdictional-challenge jurisdictional-challenges plea-bargaining supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-goodall united-states-v-taylor |
Whether a guilty plea that includes an appellate waiver bars jurisdictional challenges on appeal |
| 23-5865 |
Jason Dix v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error separation-of-powers sua-sponte |
Whether an appellate court may relieve a government party of its burden to show that a favorable error is harmless, decide the issue sua sponte, and t… |
| 23-5848 |
In Re Naser A. Abdallah |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights district-court due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit identity-theft standing writ-of-prohibition |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause |
| 23-5850 |
In Re Lawrence Smith |
|
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech habeas-corpus standing |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing petitioner's civil-rights, due-process, and free-speech claims |
| 23-5851 |
Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment equal-protection mitigation-evidence |
Whether sentencing a 19-year-old codefendant to death violates the Eighth Amendment or Equal Protection Clause when his similarly culpable 17-year-old… |
| 23A359 |
Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari criminal-law federal-appeal tenth-circuit united-states-v-walker |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling in United States v. Walker improperly interpreted or applied a federal criminal law or constitutional standard |
| 23-419 |
USIC, LLC v. Northern Illinois Gas Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
|
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction final-order new-argument postjudgment-motion summary-judgment tolling |
If a federal court of appeals construes a filing below as a postjudgment motion tolling the time for appeal, does that court have authority to reverse… |
| 23-5807 |
Fares Mustafa v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington witness-translation |
Whether the State Court's ruling on Petitioner's claim that Trial Counsel was ineffective for failing to move to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory sta… |
| 23-5808 |
Rodney Jennings v. Shawn Phillips, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability doyle-rule doyle-v-ohio habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia legal-sufficiency strickland-test strickland-v-washington |
Did the court of appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability and in evaluating petitioner's claim under Jackson v. Virginia, Doyle v. Ohio, … |
| 23-5814 |
Justin Andre Lamoureux v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-jurisdiction obstruction-of-justice witness-tampering |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court system, obstruction of justice across state lines, and tampering with … |
| 23-5818 |
Eduardo Martinez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process entitlement-to-relief habeas-corpus legal-standard procedural-requirements |
Whether a court of appeals can deny a Certificate of appealability because it believes the applicant will not demonstrate an entitlement to relief and… |
| 23-5788 |
Roberto Buendia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review davis fifth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict molina-martinez plain-error plain-error-review rosales-mireles sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the standard the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals applied for determining if the sentencing Guidelines' error in Buendia's case was 'plain' conf… |
| 23-394 |
Thurayyah Z. Richardson v. The Procter and Gamble Company, et al. |
New York |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion material-facts summary-judgment |
Where a trial court resolving summary judgment denies due process |
| 23-5766 |
Richard Todd Haas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance-sentence |
Is the Fourth Circuit's plausibility test for evaluating a variance sentence under the 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) factors, because it is untethered from any … |
| 23-5774 |
Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-policy civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-ethics judicial-recusal mandamus-petition public-confidence standing |
Is the Eleventh Circuit's policy of refusing review of facially valid mandamus petitions for recusal causing irreparable harm to the public's percepti… |
| 23-5779 |
Donovan Romo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-doctrine judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Does a defendant forfeit a challenge to the manner in which the district court imposed sentence by failing to object after the sentence is pronounced,… |
| 23-5733 |
Donald D. Higgs v. New Jersey Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-review legal-issue standing statutory-interpretation |
Was the district court's dismissal with prejudice of defendants' claims establish deprivation of constitutional rights? |
| 23-5724 |
Taylor Scott Meece v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment supreme-court-procedure |
Did the Wyoming Supreme Court abuse its discretion in affirming the conviction and sentence? |
| 23-5714 |
Cuhuatemoc Hinricky Peraita v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review evidence-rule juror-misconduct jury-misconduct mattox-v-united-states no-impeachment-rule parker-v-gladden prior-convictions sixth-amendment trial-procedure verdict-challenge |
Did the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals depart from this Court's decisions in Mattox v. United States, 146 U.S. 140 (1892) and Parker v. Gladden, 38… |
| 23-5689 |
Philip Jones v. Charles Schuyler, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miller-el-v-cockrell ninth-circuit slack-v-mcdaniel |
Did the Ninth Circuit's refusal to issue a certificate of appealability for Jones's ineffective assistance of counsel claim conflict with this Court's… |
| 23-5671 |
Oscar Hernandez Maldonado v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure cultural-assimilation downward-departure expert-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report sentencing waiver-of-rights |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly affirmed the trial court's determination that the petitioner was not denied effective assistance o… |
| 23-327 |
John Canada v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review clear-error fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress ornelas-standard ornelas-v-united-states probable-cause standard-of-review suppression-hearing |
Whether the review of the evidence in a suppression-hearing record 'in the light most favorable to the government' conflicts with Ornelas's standard o… |
| 23-5664 |
Robert Edward Sindaco v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-counsel newly-discovered-evidence perjury post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-credibility |
Whether the state court's denial of the petitioner's motion to vacate his conviction based on newly discovered evidence of perjury by a key witness vi… |
| 23-5668 |
Maurice Bellamy v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vagueness count-severance criminal-indictment criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy due-process indictment joinder severance trial-court-discretion |
Whether the trial court erred when it denied defendant's repeated motions to sever counts in the indictment |
| 23-297 |
Lawrence T. Newman v. Robert York |
Indiana |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion res-judicata |
Whether the Indiana courts' judgments violated Newman's Constitutional rights to due process by denying hearings, imposing punitive attorney fee award… |
| 23-309 |
Michael Paul Nelson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure disability-rights due-process equal-access fundamental-rights reasonable-accommodation |
Does the Confrontation Clause and/or Due Process Clause require a criminal court to modify policies to allow a disabled defendant to use prosthetic de… |
| 23-5654 |
Daquail Ramon Johnson v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence virginia |
Whether Virginia's standard of review for appellate claims of insufficient evidence of a criminal conviction violates the Due Process Clause as interp… |
| 23-281 |
Steven C. Fustolo v. The Patriot Group, LLC, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review bankruptcy-court bias-in-fact circuit-split civil-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-recusal recusal standard-of-review |
Should the national standard of review for a denial of a motion to recuse be abuse of discretion or de novo? |
| 23-285 |
Amory Investments LLC, et al. v. Tyson Foods Incorporated, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
|
antitrust-law appellate-review collateral-order-doctrine district-court federal-antitrust-law judicial-procedure private-enforcement public-interest standing |
Does a district court order permitting significant interference with private enforcement of federal antitrust law implicate an interest sufficiently i… |
| 23-271 |
Ryan Lynch v. Condominiums of Buena Vista, Inc. |
Minnesota |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review arbitrability-clause arbitration-clause arbitration-standards contract-interpretation federal-arbitration-act judicial-review procedural-rights state-courts statutory-interpretation |
When state courts misconstrue or ignore a written agreement controlling an arbitrability clause governed by the FAA, if the provisions under §2 and §4… |
| 23-273 |
Southern-Owners Insurance Company v. American Builders Insurance Company |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure insurance-coverage legal-issue preservation-of-issues rule-50 summary-judgment |
Whether a party must reassert in Rule 50 motions a purely legal issue resolved adversely at summary judgment to preserve the issue for appellate revie… |
| 23-5626 |
Arun Dhavamani v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-finding federal-jurisdiction manufactured-jurisdiction sentencing |
Whether a defendant's right to due process is violated when a Court of Appeals remands a case for additional factfinding after the district court has … |
| 23-5627 |
Ronald Rene Deleon, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure mandatory-minimum plain-error revocation sentencing sentencing-procedure supervised-release |
Whether application of a mandatory minimum term of supervised release following a revocation amounts to plain error? |
| 23-5629 |
Rene Rigoberto Rodriguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review constitutional-analysis criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felony-indictment fifth-circuit plain-error statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rahimi |
Whether a ruling in Mr. Rahimi's favor would affect the Fifth Circuit's plain-error analysis concerning the constitutionality of § 922(n) |
| 23-5599 |
Juan Manuel Amaya-Castaneda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
almendarez-torres appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion prior-conviction-exception prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range |
| 23-252 |
United States, ex rel. Michelle Calderon v. Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review causation civil-penalties civil-procedure due-process false-claims-act materiality summary-judgment |
Did the Appellate Panel erroneously uphold the granting of summary judgment in favor of Respondent in finding no evidence of causation for a jury to c… |
| 23-5592 |
Beau John Greene v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review arizona constitutional-bias death-penalty due-process judicial-bias judicial-recusal prosecutorial-conflict recusal williams-v-pennsylvania |
Did the appellate court violate Greene's due process rights by creating an impermissible risk of actual bias by allowing Justice Montgomery to decide … |
| 23-247 |
S. C., Mother v. Philadelphia Department of Human Services, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process factual-findings judicial-review legal-error misapplication-of-law state-court-opinion |
Did the Pennsylvania Courts' decisions constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplications of law, and deny Petitioner due process? |
| 23-5586 |
Nestor Leon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-violation circuit-court civil-procedure court-procedure document-submission due-process evidentiary-hearing legal-dismissal petition-process standing subpoena-duces-tecum |
Did the Eleventh Circuit clerk err in dismissing the petitioner's case after the petitioner provided all requested documents? |
| 23A233 |
Jerry Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-09-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-review death-penalty habeas-corpus penalty-phase |
Whether the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals properly applied constitutional standards in affirming a capital conviction and death sentence after mul… |
| 23-5551 |
Kristian G. Little, nka Kristian G. Childers v. Jamie A. Little |
Kentucky |
2023-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions |
| 23-5539 |
Trezjuan Thompson v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-of-appeals circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deficient-performance ineffective-assistance new-rule-doctrine new-rule-of-law sentencing-counsel supreme-court-precedents |
How far afield from prior criminal sentencing cases does a doctrinal opinion from a regional circuit court of appeals have to go before it qualifies a… |
| 23-5483 |
Dontavious Blake v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-prejudice ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing |
The Appellate Court erred in denying relief for IOC concerning the advice that petitioner would receive a life sentence after either a guilty plea or … |
| 23-5489 |
Lonnie Dee Brown v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure daubert daubert-standard evidence expert-testimony ineffective-assistance kumho-tire standard-of-review strickland-test |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' review of trial courts decisions to admit or exclude expert testimony comport with the United States S… |
| 23A191 |
Anthony Kinney v. Supreme Court of New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2023-08-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review attorney's-fees caperton-standard conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-recusal |
Whether a state trial judge's failure to recuse himself despite a financial interest in a party's law firm, combined with sua sponte ordering of unnec… |
| 23-5464 |
Patrick Okeyo v. USCIS, Newark Office, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review case-reopening civil-procedure civil-rights deprivation due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court erred in reopening case #22-1875 |
| 23-5469 |
Peonte Shamar Spencer v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit hobbs-act standing statutory-interpretation violent-conduct |
Question not identified |
| 23-5456 |
John E. Gilcrease v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review consecutive-sentence constitutional-rights due-process judicial-vindictiveness north-carolina-v-pearce plea-bargaining remand sentencing-modification |
Were John Gilcrease's due process rights violated when the court imposed a more onerous, consecutive sentence after his original sentence was vacated … |
| 23-5440 |
Roman Andreyevich Glukhoy v. California |
California |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california criminal-procedure harmless-error jury-instructions legal-theory prejudice prejudicial-error standard-of-review |
When a defendant is convicted after a trial court instructs a jury on two theories of guilt, one of which is legally correct and one legally incorrect… |
| 23-5443 |
Scott Huss v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2023-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation confrontation-clause constitutional-violation due-process equal-application equal-protection habeas-corpus |
Is it a federal due process, confrontation, and equal application violation as guaranteed by the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments (U.S. Const.) when a st… |
| 23-5432 |
Kyle Vaughn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-presumption presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-precedent rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 23-5418 |
Billy Noel Catherwood v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus judicial-circuit national-emergency public-defender standing state-corrections time-extension victim-impact |
Did the Mid. Dis. of FL y. U.S. Ct. of App. err (in not following Supreme Court Order allowing 180-day extension of time for filing federal habeas cor… |
| 23-5424 |
Caesar V. Vaca v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights-restoration constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-firearms-law felony-possession habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel restoration-of-civil-rights second-amendment |
Whether reasonable jurist could debate that trial and appellate counsel failed to invoke 18 U.S.C. §921(a)(20) |
| 23-5404 |
Grace Woodham v. New Hampshire |
New Hampshire |
2023-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-jurisdiction mental-health-treatment pretrial-detention |
Whether the appellate and trial counsel provided ineffective assistance in violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel |
| 23-159 |
Antonio Perez v. City of Miami, Code Enforcement Board |
Florida |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
administrative-law appellate-review brady-standard civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standards judicial-disqualification judicial-review standing substantive-due-process |
Whether the 'appellate review model' is contrary to evidentiary standard protections |
| 23-5384 |
Wayne Lee Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-withdrawal civil-procedure court-discretion due-process judicial-process legal-petition merits-review procedural-issue supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower court should have allowed counsel to withdraw from petitioner's appeal, knowing the petitioner had issues of merit for an appeal on … |
| 23-5389 |
Wilfredo Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split colorable-claim criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-response sentencing sentencing-argument |
Where a federal criminal defendant raises a colorable sentencing argument, must the district court acknowledge and respond to it? |
| 23-5391 |
Walter Raul Maguina v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence extrinsic-evidence harmless-error judicial-procedure prejudice prejudicial-evidence remand |
Whether a district court's failure to address the prejudicial nature of extrinsic evidence requires remand |
| 23-5340 |
Lewis Gilmore Hurst v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-errors statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit may prohibit consideration of sentencing errors under 18 USC §3582(c)(1)(A) |
| 23-5333 |
Abussamaa Rasul Ramzidin v. Angelo J. Onofri, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Mercer County Prosecutor, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process judicial-error legal-standard prejudice procedural-prejudice standing third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey erred in their decisions which unfairly… |
| 23-5307 |
Curt Daniel Crowder v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-process appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance remedy right-to-counsel right-to-present-witnesses trial-procedure trial-process |
When a citizen is deprived of the right to present witnesses in his defense, and effective assistance of counsel, in both the trial and appellate proc… |
| 23-5313 |
Leonardo Roque v. Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr., Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure constitutional-merit due-process equitable-tolling fourth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-ruling standing statute-of-limitations |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals commit Error when that court Denied Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability |
| 23-5323 |
Don Collins v. Rob Jeffreys, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights court-dismissal document-access due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing foia foia-request institutional-bias procedural-fairness |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the case after granting leave to serve defendants, and in failing to address issues related to access to e… |
| 23-114 |
Sharon A. Finizie v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure factual-findings judicial-procedure legal-error legal-errors misapplication-of-law rule-of-law standard-of-review third-circuit |
Did the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of a properly… |
| 23-5283 |
Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Cal Trahune, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus nunc-pro-tunc procedural-review rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review |
whether-dismissal-without-prejudice-of-federal-habeas-corpus-prematurely-filed-counts-as-first-filing-under-aedpa |
| 23-5289 |
Willie Seth Crain, Jr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance pleadings sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is it a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process to allow a conviction to stand where some of the elements of the crime were not est… |
| 23-5276 |
German Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 23-100 |
Jeffrey L. Clemens v. Michael J. O'Hara |
First Circuit |
2023-08-02 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights disorderly-conduct due-process false-testimony heck-bar iqbal-plausibility malicious-prosecution |
Whether the appellate court erred in upholding the dismissal of a malicious-prosecution claim despite allegations of false testimony and improper dism… |
| 23-5249 |
Ryan David Green v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-request civil-rights court-filing death-penalty due-process legal-petition mental-health solitary-confinement supreme-court |
Whether the conditions of confinement and treatment of a death-row inmate violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment |
| 23-5258 |
Octavius McLendon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-jurisdiction federal-inmates federal-prisoners habeas-corpus post-conviction-review procedural-default statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals may deny a § 2255 motion on the merits rather than remanding to the district court |
| 23-5259 |
Ryan Lewis Hilyard v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection federal-rules-of-evidence fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel state-court-decisions |
Did the Wyoming Supreme Court apply and follow Federal Rules of Evidence correctly? |
| 23-86 |
Christopher Bayre Chamberlin v. Hartog, Baer & Hand, APC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts appellate-review attorney-malpractice civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process legal-ethics legal-malpractice pro-se-litigation |
Whether HBH's concealment of its family relationship with the adverse party violated the petitioner's constitutional rights to freely associate and ma… |
| 23-90 |
Shaomin Sui v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arbitration civil-procedure district-court |
Whether the 4th Circuit Court erred in upholding the district court's order concluding that arbitration fully decided all claims in the case |
| 23-5238 |
John Edward Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof confrontation-clause confrontation-clause-jurisprudence federal-rules-of-evidence machine-generated-data machine-produced-data supreme-court-jurisprudence testimonial-evidence testimonial-statements |
Who has the burden to show that a report sought to be introduced includes 'raw, machine produced data' and not testimonial statements triggering the C… |
| 23-5224 |
James Scott v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights discretionary-review due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence trial-court-record trial-court-records |
Whether Appellate Court abused its discretion |
| 23-5228 |
Patrick Frederick Williams v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split first-step-act procedural-reasonableness section-404 sentencing-reduction substantive-reasonableness |
Whether appellate review for 'abuse of discretion' of a district court's denial of a sentence reduction under Section 404(b) of the First Step Act req… |
| 23-76 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Infosys BPM, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review civil-rights due-process extraordinary-review judicial-procedure mandamus mandamus-relief pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
whether-the-district-court-erred-in-sua-sponte-dismissing-the-complaint-before-requiring-the-defendants-to-answer |
| 23-77 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Tata Consultancy Services, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review civil-rights due-process extraordinary-review jurisdictional-error mandamus mandamus-relief pro-se-complaint standing sua-sponte-dismissal |
Whether the district court erred in sua sponte dismissing the pro se civil-rights complaint before requiring the defendants to answer, and whether the… |
| 23-78 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Arnaud Vaissie, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion dismissal-on-the-merits judgment-on-merits mandamus mandamus-relief moses-h-cone-memorial-hospital-v-mercury-construct pleading-deficiencies preclusion procedural-dismissal semtek-v-lockheed |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims on preclusive grounds despite the dismissal being based on pleading deficiencies … |
| 23-68 |
Springboards to Education, Inc. v. Mission Independent School District |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment trademark trademark-law |
whether-the-case-met-the-standard-to-dismiss-on-summary-judgment |
| 23-5184 |
Kinley MacDonald v. Lea-Anne Sutton, Judge, District Court of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law family-rights hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing |
Can a final court open and remove children in protective custody case based solely on hearsay evidence prohibited by state statute in secret and in ab… |
| 23-5176 |
Damarco Antonio Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-standing procedural-rights right-of-appeal standing |
Did the Court of Appeals incorrectly deprive Mr. Smith of his right of appeal? |
| 23-5177 |
Kenneth Ragan-Armstrong v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion plain-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-conditions supervised-release |
Whether the district court plainly erred in imposing special conditions of supervision without explaining why such conditions were necessary or approp… |
| 23-5137 |
Joshua Christopher Stockstill v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines section-3553a-factors sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered a substantively unreasonable 30-year prison sentence |
| 23-5142 |
Joseph Counts v. Maine |
First Circuit |
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-interpretation due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure procedural-rules standing stare-decisis |
Where the proper way for lower courts to handle the penumbra of filings |
| 23-5125 |
Justin Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance jurisdiction sixth-amendment |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits the government from prosecuting a defendant for the same offense after a court has previously denied the … |
| 23-5128 |
In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. |
|
2023-07-18 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus motion-denial rule-60b section-2255 |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion by refusing to answer Stinson's § 2255 motion? |
| 23-40 |
Brenda Bellay v. Officer Tyler Shue, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice evidentiary-standards flury judicial-sanctions less-severe-sanctions sanctions spoilation-of-evidence spoliation-of-evidence |
Should a Court of Appeals uphold the dismissal of a case with prejudice due to the spoilation of evidence when there are less severe sanctions availab… |
| 23-5101 |
Christopher Wade v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit gall-v-united-states harmless-error judicial-precedent sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-guzman-rendon |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of harmless error doctrine violates SCOTUS precedent |
| 23-5073 |
Cinque Robinson v. Janeen D. Guajardo |
Illinois |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process justiciable-controversy parental-rights parenting-time procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction void-order |
Did the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District err in not vacating the abatement of my parenting time |
| 23-5055 |
Erick De Jesus-Torres v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aiding-and-abetting appellate-review downward-variance gall-v-united-states kimbrough-v-united-states meaningful-explanation policy-considerations sentencing-court sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor, particularly an … |
| 23-5049 |
Marcus O. Singleton v. Scott Eckstein, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct prosecutorial-vouching trial-misconduct wisconsin-courts witness-credibility |
Whether the prosecutor vouched for their witnesses |
| 23-15 |
Springboards to Education, Inc. v. IDEA Public Schools |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion legal-standard legal-standards summary-judgment trademark-infringement |
Whether the legal reasoning used to evaluate the trademark-infringement issue was subjective, incomplete, and failed to address the record and the leg… |
| 23-5029 |
In Re Robert L. Hedrick |
|
2023-07-05 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-procedure standing |
Whether the District Court and Appellate Court violated Appellant's 1st, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 14th Amendment rights |
| 23-5038 |
Kurt Michaels v. Ron Davis, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (13)IFP |
aggravating-evidence appellate-review capital-case confession confession-evidence cumulative-error harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-deliberation jury-deliberations ninth-circuit-review |
Whether a court reviewing a cold record in a capital case may determine that the effect of an erroneously admitted confession and other improper aggra… |
| 23-5012 |
Matthew Nix v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation juror-misconduct jury-misconduct jury-selection mcdonnell-test mcdonongh-test supreme-court |
Whether the multiple interpretations of McDonough's two prong test requires this Court to grant certiorari to provide clarity and avoid disparate resu… |
| 23-2 |
Gerald Spruell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy drug-quantities evidence evidence-sufficiency jury-verdict mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in concluding there was sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict and drug quantities attributed to the con… |
| 23-5004 |
Gregory L. Randle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-waiver right-to-appeal waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Randle's appeal based on the waiver of appeal provisions in his Plea Agreement |
| 23-5010 |
Donald Lee Linville v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone and the subsequent use of the information obtained … |
| 22-7867 |
Nelson Alexander Polk v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-sentencing discovery due-process evidence free-speech judicial-procedure legal-standards |
Whether Poli biouee's Doe Peseoes Ricits Waser uiolated, When Ig tounge was not Present al TaCameva Wearing which Was conducted Lo assess the validity… |
| 22-7904 |
Andrew Ryan Demont v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-law drug-convictions federal-guidelines federal-sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether prior drug convictions inclusive of decontrolled substances can be used for federal sentencing enhancements |
| 22-7879 |
Olyric Robinson v. California |
California |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review california-procedure constitutional-rights due-process hit-and-run mandated-procedures parole-decision-making-instrument parole-revocation state-court-decisions substantial-evidence |
Whether the state courts of California rendered decisions in violation of precedents established by other state courts of last resort or United States… |
| 22-7831 |
Charles A. McRae v. Shannon N. Myers, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-standard sentencing-guidelines standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Appellate Court erred by affirming the district court's decision to deny petitioner's constitutional claims |
| 22-1229 |
Ronnie D. Ward, et al. v. Cross Keys Bank, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review article-iii-court bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review state-law-claim subject-matter-jurisdiction supervisory-power |
Should a case removed to bankruptcy court proceed through three levels of federal court without proof of subject matter jurisdiction? |
| 22-7822 |
Darwin Powell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 sentencing standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea |
Whether the courts of appeals have improperly narrowed the 'fair and just reason' standard for evaluating a defendant's request to withdraw a guilty p… |
| 22-7833 |
Jeremy Randall Ezell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 22-7811 |
Trent S. Griffin, Sr. v. American Zurich Insurance Company, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
60b-motion abuse-of-discretion affirmative-defense appellate-review full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss plea-to-the-jurisdiction res-judicata |
Whether an unauthenticated judgment has res judicata effects as an affirmative defense |
| 22-7812 |
Miguel A. Cisneros v. Trent Allen, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-procedure jury-instructions legal-standing |
Whether the state court's admission of erroneous evidence violated the petitioner's 14th Amendment due process rights |
| 22-7802 |
James B. Norris, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process internet-access judicial-explanation pro-se-motion revocation-hearing sentencing sentencing-discretion supervised-release |
Whether the district court erred in revoking Petitioner's supervised release based solely on his admission to accessing the internet without permissio… |
| 22-7810 |
Neiman Nix v. Major League Baseball, Office of the Commissioner of Baseball, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review banned-substance civil-rights due-process natural-product natural-substance pro-se-plaintiff selective-enforcement substance-ban union-rights |
Can Major League Baseball ban a natural substance that is required for humans to survive? |
| 22-7792 |
Diante Turman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-discretion drug-offense drug-schedule drug-schedules federal-sentencing federal-sentencing federal-sentencing
22-7791" mcneill-precedent mcneill-v-united-states safety-valve sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction Whether the district court erred at sentencing in |
Does McNeill require courts to define 'controlled substance offenses' under Section 4B1.2(b) to include convictions under laws encompassing substances… |
| 22-7796 |
Jose Alfredo Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-specific-facts criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance upward-variance |
Whether a district court's mere recitation of the sentencing statute absent any application of case-specific facts is sufficient to support a five-yea… |
| 22-7799 |
Gregory Smith v. Patricia Thompson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-illness pro-se pro-se-defendant |
Should a certificate of appealability issue to debate the matter of counsel being appointed to aid a pro se defendant suffering from retardation and m… |
| 22-7761 |
Aaron Keith v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss speedy-trial statutory-right trial-continuance waiver |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that petitioner waived any speedy-trial objection |
| 22-1200 |
Lee Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-12 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure forfeiture independent-obligation judicial-discretion legal-argumentation legal-forfeiture young-v-united-states |
Do the courts of appeals have an independent obligation to craft and consider forfeited legal arguments in criminal cases? |
| 22-1184 |
Robert Walker, et al. v. Barry S. Mittelberg, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
|
11th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure bankruptcy-rules civil-procedure due-process judicial-estoppel property-disclosure standing |
Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals exercised its discretion in err |
| 22-7725 |
James Earl Green, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-7717 |
Christopher A. Bernard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review below-guidelines-sentence circuit-split district-court-discretion holguin-hernandez procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the holding in Holguin-Hernandez that a defendant's argument for a lower sentence preserves appellate review of the substantive reasonableness… |
| 22-7701 |
Jose Pena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure de-novo-review double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing vacatur |
Whether, following the vacatur of a count of conviction, the district court must resentence the defendant de novo on the remaining counts |
| 22-7703 |
Jacob Patrick Krafft v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence |
How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan… |
| 22-7674 |
John Paul Waldon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's petition for writ of certiorari |
| 22-1153 |
Hector Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-prisoner habeas-corpus procedural-grounds right-to-hearing statutory-rights |
Does a district court deny a federal prisoner the constitutional or statutory right to be heard by misreading or ignoring the case files and records a… |
| 22-7639 |
Hulon Verser v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review gang-related-crime ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-warnings murder-conviction newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction post-conviction-relief state-rules-and-laws unlawful-arrest witness-credibility |
Whether the post-conviction court erred in denying the petitioner's post-conviction petition after an evidentiary hearing, where the newly discovered … |
| 22-1144 |
Farva Jafri v. Signal Funding, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-rights employment-discrimination equal-pay equal-pay-act human-rights-act judicial-bias judicial-recusal media-attention summary-judgment |
Whether the Honorable Judge Easterbrook and the Honorable Judge Wood should have voluntarily recused themselves |
| 22-7619 |
Earl Anderson v. Aramark Correctional Services, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights corporate-disclosure dismissal district-court due-process in-forma-pauperis standing supplemental-complaint |
Whether the Appellate Court erred in affirming the dismissal of Petitioner Andersen's Original Complaint |
| 22-7610 |
Othniel Evans Maragh v. Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-bias standing summary-judgment |
Is it ethical or legal for the Southern District Court of New York's Judge, Jesse M Furman to disregard every shred of evidence presented by the Plain… |
| 22-1132 |
Derek Sine v. Kathryn Kosmides |
New York |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment appellate-review attorney-fees due-process evidentiary-hearing fourteenth-amendment order-of-protection willfulness |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's motion for leave to appeal |
| 22-7579 |
Keith Grant Schneider v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-brief anders-v-california appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-right counsel-appointment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment |
Whether the appellate court has a duty to conduct a full review of the record under Anders v. California when appointed counsel files an Anders brief … |
| 22-7580 |
Victor Alfredo Bermudez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing notice-of-objection preservation-of-error preservation-of-objection procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review supervisory-powers trial-court-notice |
Whether a specific objection must be lodged to preserve a procedural error claim when the trial court was put on notice of the objection through defen… |
| 22-7562 |
Joseph Tetak v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-issue deference-standard federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus judicial-precedent stare-decisis state-supreme-court subjective-objective-analysis |
Does the doctrine of stare decisis prevail on a state supreme court's determination of a constitutional issue in the same manner as this Court's deter… |
| 22-7549 |
Gilberto Arreola Chavez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process first-amendment judicial-review legal-procedure post-conviction-relief retroactivity |
Is retroactivity applicable for post-conviction relief? |
| 22-7540 |
Harry Cole v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure district-court due-process essential-element jurisdiction jurisdictional-concept sua-sponte venue |
Whether venue is only a jurisdictional concept rather than essential element of an offense that must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 22-1108 |
Reuben Haley v. Urban Outfitters, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the grant of summary judgment against petitioner was error? |
| 22-1103 |
Edward Bronson v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Second Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court-order civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-sanctions due-process injunctive-relief penalties punitive-sanctions standing statutory-penalties supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Summary Order of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court |
| 22-1105 |
Carlo Giuseppe Civelli, et al. v. JPMorgan Chase Securities, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure fifth-circuit notice notice-requirement preservation sua-sponte summary-judgment trial-court |
Whether an appellate court may sua sponte raise grounds for summary judgment, which were not noticed or preserved in the trial court |
| 22-7518 |
John William Iron Road v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing proximate-causation proximate-cause restitution restitution-award sentencing statutory-interpretation unlawful-award |
Whether an appellate court should enforce an appeal waiver where the appeal challenges an unlawful restitution award? |
| 22-7519 |
Daniel A. Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal sentencing-review standing statutory-interpretation structural-error |
Whether it is a Structural Error for a District Judge to preside over proceedings that he has been directly recused from |
| 22-7520 |
Levaughn Collins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence wiretap-evidence wiretapping |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Mr. Collins' Motions to Suppress Wire Tap evidence |
| 22-7499 |
Judy Thorpe v. Rosemarie Cipparulo, et al. |
New Jersey |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-certification due-process equitable-review judicial-review legal-review manifest-error prejudicial-error trial-court-decision |
Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Deny Certification and Not Fairly and Equitably Rev… |
| 22-7482 |
Ralph Leroy Menzies v. Robert Powell, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
adequate-appeal appellate-review capital-case due-process prejudice prejudice-standard transcript transcript-reconstruction voir-dire |
Does the petitioner's Due Process right to an adequate and effective appeal in a capital case require a new trial where critical portions of the proce… |
| 22-7484 |
In Re Richard Chapman |
|
2023-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review binding-precedent civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-mandate due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion record-review standing |
Whether the trial court abused its authority when it departed from the appellate court mandate |
| 22-7456 |
Zhaojin David Ke v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-justice equal-protection evidence-presentation judicial-discrimination pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether the right to present evidence in an appeals court is Constitutionally protected |
| 22-1061 |
Jonathan B. Andry v. Lawyer Disciplinary Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorney-discipline disciplinary-proceedings district-court due-process fifth-circuit legal-rationale quasi-criminal quasicriminal-proceedings |
Does an appellate court violate an attorney's right to due process of law when it upholds a disciplinary violation in a quasicriminal proceeding on gr… |
| 22-1052 |
Patricia Hermann v. Jonathan B. McFarland, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure good-cause judicial-discretion procedural-motion reconsideration time-extension |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying a motion for extension of time under Fed. R. Civ. P. 6(b)(1)(A) where the record showed go… |
| 22-7414 |
John Henry Moore v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure mandamus standing writ-of-relief |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Erred When It Denied Certiorari to the District Court Proceedings |
| 22-1023 |
Dora L. Adkins v. American Service Center Associates, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1915 amendment amendment-right appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-statute in-forma-pauperis judicial-dismissal |
Whether the district court properly dismissed a civil action filed in forma pauperis without allowing the plaintiff to amend the complaint |
| 22-1024 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Whole Foods Market Group, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-21 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1915 amendment-right appellate-review civil-procedure district-court-dismissal failure-to-state-a-claim frivolous frivolous-claim in-forma-pauperis right-to-amend |
Whether the district court properly dismissed a civil action filed in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B) without first allowing the plaint… |
| 22-1019 |
CoreCivic, Inc. v. Sylvester Owino, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure class-certification commonality ninth-circuit rule-23 standard-of-review uniformity |
Whether courts of appeals reviewing Rule 23 class certification decisions must give district court decisions granting class certification more deferen… |
| 22-1012 |
Janet Austen v. Franklin Herman |
Maryland |
2023-04-18 |
Denied |
|
alimony alimony-calculation appeals appellate-review family-law income-calculation income-determination judicial-discretion marital-dissolution permanent-alimony trial-court |
Was the appeals court correct in upholding the trial judge's alimony decision despite miscalculating the recipient's monthly income? |
| 22-1014 |
Estate of Rex Vance Wilson, et al. v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court exceptions federal-appeals federal-procedure issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-arguments preservation-of-claims standard-of-review |
Where a plaintiff may advance new arguments on appeal |
| 22-7308 |
Jose Alfredo Solis v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-appeals guidelines-range harmless-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-proof |
What standard of proof must the government meet to prove a preserved Guidelines error is harmless? |
| 22-7307 |
Darek Lathan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavits appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-procedure sentencing standing |
Which guarantee of due process of law is needed to rebut affidavits notarized under seal? |
| 22-7288 |
Gilberto Gonzalez-Enriquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process error-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review u.s-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentencing court can insulate a substantial error in calculating the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines range from appellate review simply by assert… |
| 22-7289 |
Terrick Bishoff v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review application-notes circuit-court circuit-split criminal-intent deference firearms-trafficking gun-transfer sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Circuit erred in concluding that the enhancement for trafficking in firearms set out in U.S.S.G. §2K2.1(b)(5) applies to someone who… |
| 22-999 |
Janice C. Amara, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Cigna Corporation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1291 appellate-review case-by-case-balancing circuit-split final-judgment interlocutory-orders merger-rules post-judgment-proceedings postjudgment-proceedings pragmatic-finality |
May litigants wait until the end of postjudgment proceedings to appeal, with the scope of appeal including all related postjudgment decisions, or is t… |
| 22-7266 |
Levar Lee Spence v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-04-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appeal-rights appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus self-representation statutory-authorization statutory-interpretation |
issue being raised |
| 22-7273 |
Fidelmar Hernandez-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court district-court-error holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-argument substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 22-7261 |
Susan Elise Prophet v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit abused its discretion in denying Prophet's Motion for Compassionate Release/Reductio… |
| 22-7262 |
Alfred Coppage v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard civil-procedure constitutional-review due-process harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion standing |
Whether trial court abused discretion by hearing motion for substitution of judge |
| 22-990 |
Bright Harry, et al. v. KCG Americas LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure free-speech judicial-procedure pro-se-litigation standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit has statutory authority to deny oral argument to indigent and unrepresented litigants by applying incorrect standards, in co… |
| 22-988 |
Credit Consulting Services, Inc. v. Maritza Paredes |
California |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling fair-debt-collection fair-debt-collection-practices-act federal-law rotkiske-v-klemm statute-of-limitations supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the California Court of Appeal erred in holding that the California doctrine of 'equitable tolling' applied so as to toll the one-year statute… |
| 22-989 |
Rodney Lynn Dalton v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial cumulative-error due-process prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
What is the appropriate standard for determining cumulative prosecutorial misconduct in a criminal trial? |
| 22-7254 |
Danny Wayne Alcoser v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amended-motion appellate-court appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process electronic-filing ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings notice-of-appeal procedural-error |
Did the Texas Appellate Court(s) depart from judicial-proceedings to deprive petitioner's due-process rights |
| 22-7216 |
Terrell Anderson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Terrell Anderson's pretrial mo… |
| 22-7211 |
Marco Antonio Aguilar-Medina v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-procedure statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals violated Petitioner's constitutional due process rights, as protected by the Fifth Amendment, by (1) denyin… |
| 22-7178 |
David Frazier v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-procedure state-courts |
Whether Supreme Court for Tennessee ignored facts and procedure for correction of illegal sentence |
| 22-7186 |
Daniel Ray Mann v. Doug Clark, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct vouching |
Whether the state court's admission of 'vouching' testimony from a police officer expert witness violated the defendant's due process rights under the… |
| 22-7142 |
William Matthew Plump v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fraud legal-ethics legal-misrepresentation mail-fraud misrepresentation sentencing wire-fraud |
Whether the Due Process Clause prohibits the government from using criminal fraud to punish or penalize an attorney for immaterial misstatements or om… |
| 22-7144 |
In Re David Priester |
|
2023-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights conviction counsel-representation due-process extraordinary-writ federal-constitutional ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial |
Does the Sixth Amendment require the Assistance of and from counsel be appointed? |
| 22-7108 |
Andrew Ryan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-4241d appellate-review competency competency-determination due-process incompetent-defendant statutory-rights timing-violations united-states-v-olano waiver |
Whether under United States v. Olano an incompetent defendant waives appellate review of his statutory and due process right to a timely resolution of… |
| 22-929 |
BYD Motors Inc. v. Soderholm Sales and Leasing, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
|
appellate-panel appellate-review de-novo-review district-court hawaii-statute judicial-review memorandum-disposition salve-regina-college-v-russell standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Memorandum disposition, where the majority of the split appellate panel affirmed the district court's appealed decision without having con… |
| 22-7074 |
Christopher White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review supervisory-power supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Fifth Circuit's denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in this case conflict with Supreme Court precedent, warranting correction by th… |
| 22-7056 |
Alexander Cameron v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Virginia |
2023-03-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process false-evidence free-speech judicial-procedure standing supreme-court takings writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the dismissal of his appeal based on the state court's erroneous application of the 'n… |
| 22-906 |
Alan Grayson v. No Labels, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
actual-malice appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure defamation first-amendment new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure public-figures |
should-the-actual-malice-standard-be-revisited |
| 22-7013 |
Carl Puckett, et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction intellectual-property legal-standing pro-se-petition property-dispute standing trademark-infringement |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing the Pucketts' trademark infringement claims against Ain Jeem, Inc. |
| 22-7029 |
Roger Keeling v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brecht-v-abrahamson criminal-procedure harmless-error kotteakos-v-united-states ninth-circuit non-constitutional-error standard-of-review weighty-evidence |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that a non-constitutional error was harmless when it found 'ample,' rather than 'weighty,' evidence of guilt c… |
| 22-7030 |
John Gabriel Trevino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-compliance criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether non-compliance with Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32(i)(1)(A) may be excused where the defendant fails to show that he or she would have … |
| 22-7014 |
Michael Hucks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternate-sentence appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-split constitutional-notice criminal-procedure fourth-circuit guideline-errors harmless-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's reliance on an announced alternate variant sentence to assume as harmless all Guid… |
| 22-7004 |
Amit Khanna, et ux. v. Westport Village at Irongate Community Association |
California |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process hoa-declaration-bylaws home-owners-association jurisdictional-defect procedural-irregularity standing unauthorized-counsel vexatious-litigants vexatious-litigation |
Whether a case without a plaintiff may proceed against persons mis-alleged to be defendants |
| 22-6972 |
Deandre Earp v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-circuit judicial-interpretation mental-illness sentencing |
Whether a criminal defendant who is found guilty but mentally ill can be punished as harshly as a defendant found guilty and sane |
| 22-6953 |
Curtis Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Was the sentence imposed on Petitioner substantively reasonable? |
| 22-6956 |
Michael Blake DeFrance v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
all-writs-act appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review categorical-approach civil-procedure domestic-violence final-judgment jurisdiction ninth-circuit standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit correctly determined that the orders appealed were neither final nor worthy of consideration under the All-Writs Act 18 USC … |
| 22-6916 |
Carlos Mejia-Quintanilla v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-claim plea-agreement plea-bargaining summary-enforcement |
whether courts can summarily enforce an appellate waiver to bar motions to vacate unconstitutional convictions |
| 22-6935 |
William Ingram v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel court-discretion due-process judicial-procedure legal-error standing trial-procedure |
Whether the trial court violated petitioners' right to choice of counsel and the appellate court's failure to review the trial court's ruling |
| 22-6945 |
Derrick Owens v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-circuit appellate-review career-offender circuit-court-split circuit-split cocaine-conviction cocaine-convictions federal-law sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court err in finding Mr. Owens a Career Offender under the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 22-6918 |
Ralph Hall v. Darwin LeClaire, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-rights contempt counsel due-process incarceration judicial-review procedural-due-process statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel and the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require the appointment of counsel for indigent de… |
| 22-6927 |
Derrick Deshon Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-presumption appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence |
How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging the substan… |
| 22-6861 |
Jairo Francisco Solano v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay judicial-procedure trial-court-error |
Did the trial court err by admitting hearsay testimony over the objection of Mr. Solano? |
| 22-6844 |
Eladio Loya-Palma v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 22-6845 |
Jesus Lopez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-procedure plea-bargaining rule-11 seventh-circuit |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's stringent application of Rule 11(d)(2)(B) violates due process? |
| 22-6846 |
Christopher L. Corn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure invited-error judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum |
Can an appellate court use the invited error doctrine to preclude review of a plainly erroneous sentence that exceeds the statutory maximum sentence a… |
| 22-6853 |
Joshua Seekins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review commerce-clause criminal-law criminal-possession due-process federalism harmless-error interstate-commerce jurisdictional-issue second-amendment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Congress may criminalize intrastate possession of ammunition solely because it crossed state lines at some point before it came into the defen… |
| 22-6840 |
David Omar Caraballo v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review case-review civil-procedure court-decision due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure legal-interpretation legal-review petitioner-claims standard-of-review standing |
Whether the district court of appeals erred in denying petitioner's points of argument as presented on direct appeal |
| 22-780 |
Scott Meide, et al. v. Noah Centineo, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review brief-requirements civil-rights court-obligations due-process judicial-discretion judicial-independence judicial-procedure judicial-review legal-standards rule-of-law separation-of-powers |
Do we have a government of laws and not of men? |
| 22-6820 |
Sergio Moises Ochoa v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2023-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review compel-witnesses constitutional-interpretation due-process enumerated-rights evidence-rules fundamental-rights judicial-discretion present-defense rules-of-evidence |
May courts continue to treat fundamental and enumerated rights as mere guidelines to be discarded when inconvenient? |
| 22-6799 |
Emeka Dominic Okongwu v. County of Erie, New York |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment appellate-review civil-procedure complaint-amendment district-court due-process judicial-procedure reconsideration second-circuit standing summary-judgment |
Did the court of appeals err in affirming the district court's refusal to allow amendment of the complaint? |
| 22-6805 |
Cornelius L. Jones v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection precedent-analysis statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in contradicting a statute pursuant to Peery v. Rinehart, 2015 1 App (a) 135935 and denying the defen… |
| 22-6809 |
Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
404(b)-standard appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rule evidentiary-issues evidentiary-test judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity rule-404(b) |
Is an updated, clear, and uniform test needed for the most common evidentiary issue presented on appeal, Rule 404(b) related issues? |
| 22-6771 |
Robert A. Condon v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review armed-forces court-of-criminal-appeals due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel military-justice remand transcript transcript-discrepancy |
Whether the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals of the Armed Forces is susceptible to review by the Supreme Court and requires a remand to obtai… |
| 22-6776 |
J. Doe v. Design Review Board of the Town of Sullivan's Island, et al. |
South Carolina |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment-violation appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-review procedural-due-process seventh-amendment |
Whether review should be granted where no other review was available and whether the lower appellate court denied meaningful review and other substant… |
| 22-759 |
Michael Gramins v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights fraud fraud-statutes legal-interpretation materiality negotiating-position statutory-interpretation transaction-disclosure transaction-terms |
Whether, for purposes of the federal fraud statutes, misstatements are immaterial when they pertain only to a party's negotiating position and all ter… |
| 22-6751 |
Ernest Kyle Dyer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review conditional-guilty-plea federal-criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-11(a)(2) harmless-error motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining prevail |
When a defendant enters a conditional guilty plea, reserving the right to appeal an adverse decision on a motion to suppress, what harmless-error stan… |
| 22-752 |
Bi Rite Auto Transport, Inc., et al. v. Russell Dilday, et al. |
California |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process standing state-court-rules state-law |
Is California's procedural due process satisfactory? |
| 22-755 |
Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Thomas L. Dorwin |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Supreme Court order that Federal Courts of Appeals are obligated to sua sponte review subject-matter jurisdiction issues regardless of the… |
| 22-6732 |
David Alvarado-Rios v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
How does a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence rebut an appellate presumption of reasonableness? |
| 22-6733 |
In Re John B. Myles |
|
2023-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arrest-warrant due-process evidence evidence-exclusion ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether the defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel |
| 22-740 |
Harinder Jeet Singh v. RXR 620 Master Lease, LLC, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process emotional-distress evidence-spoliation judicial-misconduct spoliation-of-evidence standing summary-judgment |
Whether District Court falsified facts to favor respondents |
| 22-6678 |
Cortez Watts v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process extraneous-evidence impartial-jury juror-misconduct jury-bias jury-selection trial-procedure |
Whether the trial court properly applied the Darden test of Juror Misconduct |
| 22-6685 |
Warren Havens v. Arnold Leong, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review district-court-remand federal-law-supremacy federal-officer-removal federal-question federal-question-jurisdiction gorilla-rule maritime-communications removal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-exemption |
Can a District Court remand a State Court action timely removed under 28 U.S. Code § 1442 without allowing the removing party rights to defend the rem… |
| 22-6687 |
Robert Dee Carter v. Deon Clayton, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review brady brady-materiality charges-convicted circuit-court due-process materiality pro-se-status rule-59 rule-60b |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit depart Brady by artificially heightening the threshold for materiality based on Petitione… |
| 22-6659 |
Armando Lopez-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard concurrent-sentence gall-precedent gall-v-united-states individualized-assessment intellectual-disability judicial-explanation sentencing-courts sentencing-explanation sentencing-review |
Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor advanced by a def… |
| 22-701 |
Norman Bartsch Herterich v. Mary E. Wiss, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review claims-and-issues constitutional-violations district-court federal-constitutional-violations federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-adjudication state-court-proceedings |
Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal-district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges federal-constitutional-v… |
| 22-6627 |
Kenneth Mobley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction loss-calculation restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
Was Mr. Mobley's sentence procedurally and substantively unreasonable |
| 22-6628 |
Johnell Lewis Britton, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fact-specific-reasons federal-sentencing judicial-discretion non-guidelines-sentences procedural-error reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether district courts are required to articulate fact-specific reasons for imposing non-guidelines sentences? |
| 22-6638 |
James Ralph Dawson, Jr. v. Jeff Archambeau, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure remedies standing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation tenth-circuit |
Whether Kelsi failed to show actual harm to entitle him to entire Remedies pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(c), the limiting the AEDPA's 1-year statute … |
| 22-6616 |
Brian Cota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process notice plea-bargaining plea-negotiation sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Mr. Cota can be subject to a life time of supervised release, and thereby a lifetime of revocati… |
| 22-6617 |
Winsloe Duhaney v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy implied-acquittal statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Does an appellate court violate Double Jeopardy when it remands a case for the trial court to enter alternative findings of fact and conclusions of la… |
| 22-680 |
Jun Li, et al. v. Colorado Regional Center I, LLC, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process erie-doctrine judicial-proceedings standard-of-review supervisory-power |
May a court of appeals refuse to conduct any appellate review of attorney fees awarded under state law? |
| 22-6572 |
Christian Dior Womack v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-offenses due-process fraud-on-the-court government-misrepresentation habeas-corpus judicial-error mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice plea-bargaining sentencing |
Does an appellate court's failure to recall its mandate to amend its opinion — that is predicated on the government's legal argument of inaccurate con… |
| 22-6574 |
Eddie Turner v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-conflict standing statute-of-limitations void-judgment void-ruling |
Can a void ruling legally be challenged at any time and in any court? |
| 22-6558 |
Roshua Marquiston White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing minimal-role minor-role sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of a minor or minimal role reduction under the Sentencing Guidelines without … |
| 22-6539 |
Israel Romero v. Allwell from Absolute Total Care, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction documentary-evidence federal-question pro-se pro-se-litigation rule-28-usc-1915 summary-judgment |
Whether a motion for summary judgment can be denied as premature |
| 22-6502 |
Jerry Joseph Higdon, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge procedural-bar sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is using its procedural bar rules in a manner inconsistent with the United States … |
| 22-6490 |
Wayne Johnson v. Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-fabrication unpublished-opinion void-order void-restraining-order |
Whether a state can use a void restraining order as the foundation of a criminal prosecution without violating due process |
| 22-6492 |
Zoe Ajjahnon v. Sandler Holdings, LLC |
Florida |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process eviction-proceedings federal-constitution fourteenth-amendment judicial-review procedural-deficiency property-rights state-constitution |
Whether Florida's Orange County trial court's final judgment, Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeals' deliberate denial of due process, and Florida… |
| 22-6425 |
Mirwais Mohamadi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review |
Did The Court Of Appeals Err In Denying A Certificate Of Appealability? |
| 22-6428 |
Jermaine Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certiorari-standard circuit-court-review civil-rights district-court due-process federal-habeas judicial-discretion procedural-standard standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals abused its discretion in denying petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability |
| 22-6429 |
Robert McKenna v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-history district-court-discretion due-process public-safety sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the defendant's sentence was procedurally and substantively reasonable under 18 USC §… |
| 22-6421 |
Sergio Garcia-Lara v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process presentence-report sentencing unreliable-evidence |
Whether a district court may avoid reversal for considering unreliable information by avoiding express mention of the information, or whether parties … |
| 22-6394 |
Van Raymond Brollini v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflicting-evidence credibility-of-witnesses evidence-preclusion harmless-error jury-trial sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-jury-trial tax-prosecution willfulness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's harmless-error analysis is consistent with Supreme Court precedent |
| 22-6396 |
John Edward Sansing v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review clearly-established-law criminal-procedure death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas mitigating-evidence mitigating-factors sentencing-procedure victim-impact |
Did the appellate court err in affirming the denial of Sansing's petition on this meritorious claim? |
| 22-6399 |
Kerry Simpson v. Tom Watson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process judicial-reasoning legal-standard manifest-weight prejudice prejudice-standard standard-of-review |
Did the Federal Appellate Court Apply the Correct Standard in the Determination of Prejudice? |
| 22-6392 |
Adam Tello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect legal-correction sentencing sentencing-error standing strickland-standard |
Whether a jurisdictional defective sentence must be noticed, heard, adjudicated and legally corrected at any time, whether on appeal or any other moti… |
| 22-574 |
Tiffany Lay, et vir v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bench-trial bench-trials circuit-court-review civil-procedure federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact judicial-findings obiter-dictum standard-of-review stare-decisis |
Whether Federal District Court judges properly comply with FRCP 52(a) in conducting complex bench trials |
| 22-6359 |
Leonid Gershman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review collateral-consequence conspiracy-charges criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy merger plain-error sentencing sentencing-multiplicity |
Isn't it plain error for a court to impose multiple punishments for multiple counts of conviction that for double jeopardy purposes amount to the same… |
| 22-6370 |
Adam Limbrick v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony habeas-corpus ninth-circuit standing |
whether-the-court-of-appeals-for-the-ninth-circuit-rendered-a-decision-in-conflict-with-controlling-precedent-of-the-united-states-supreme-court |
| 22-6348 |
Douglas James Schneider v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error procedural-violation rule-11 substantial-rights waiver |
Whether the court of appeals erred in holding the failure to object to the violation of Rule 11(c)(1) provides dispositive evidence that the violation… |
| 22-6355 |
Jess Richard Smith v. Sgt. Ellis, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief standing |
Whether Khe Uuth Circo tks (0-722, ORDER Granting CVeseevdeniis _ Metion TO Reveke TH Comme |
| 22-6316 |
Kalvin Walker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are automatically rendered harmless by a district court's statement that the correctness of th… |
| 22-6283 |
James R. Turner v. Federal Aviation Administration, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court-procedure due-process equitable-tolling jurisdiction-dismissal psychiatric-disability standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals was justified by DISMISSING Petitioner's appeal for lack of jurisdiction |
| 22-6241 |
Clarence Lee Hooker v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process equal-protection federal-law ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct legal-interpretation procedural-due-process |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred by denying petitioner's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, due-process, equal-pr… |
| 22-6223 |
Byron O. Woods Sr. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-standard conclusions-of-law court-of-appeals fact-finding federal-circuit judicial-conflict legal-findings pullman-standard rule-52(a) standard-of-review |
Whether the Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States Court of Appeals on the sa… |
| 22-6205 |
Demetric Hardaway v. Lori Myers, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law district-court first-amendment fourth-circuit legal-interpretation retaliation summary-judgment transfer work-assignment |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the respondent on the petiti… |
| 22-6210 |
Aaron Michael Crick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Crick's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by de… |
| 22-6214 |
Timothy Robert Gallion v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit sentence-credit sentencing-credit sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by dismissing Mr. Gallion's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error … |
| 22-6192 |
Dennis Dean Neff v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review different-outcome judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instruction-error plain-error prejudice reasonable-probability trial trial-procedure unpreserved-claims |
Whether an appellant must show a 'reasonable probability' of a different outcome at trial to demonstrate prejudice from unpreserved claims of jury ins… |
| 22-6159 |
Jeffrey Morris v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing post-conviction recantation witness-testimony |
Does the State of Florida violate a defendant's due process and/or constitutional rights in post-conviction proceedings for full development, presenta… |
| 22-6135 |
Monzell Harding v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion evidence extrinsic-evidence rico rico-conspiracy rule-404(b) rule-404b trial-error uncharged-crimes |
Was the district court required by JHuddleston v. United States, 485 U.S. 681 (1988) and Rule 404(b) to cure the reversible trial error that resulted … |
| 22-6140 |
Taylor Winston Wright v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim district-court due-process judicial-review merits-review ninth-circuit procedural-violation |
Can the Ninth Circuit fail to address the merits of a constitutional claim based on a procedural violation the district court adjudicated wrong? |
| 22-6067 |
Yazan Al-Madani v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review enterprise fraud hobbs-act mens-rea public-official rico rico-act sentencing-error victim |
Whether an entity can be both an 'enterprise' and a 'victim' under RICO |
| 22-6068 |
Anthony Braxton v. Superior Court of the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure jurisdiction standing supreme-court-rules |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the legal standards for granting a writ of certiorari |
| 22-6084 |
Jerry Bonton v. David R. Harris, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process free-speech medical-privacy mental-health-history standing trial-rights |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's claims alleging vio… |
| 22-464 |
United States v. Saleem Hakim |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review automatic-vacatur criminal-procedure judicial-discretion pretrial-procedure right-to-counsel self-representation structural-error |
Whether a defendant's erroneous pretrial self-representation categorically constitutes structural error |
| 22-456 |
Lynett S. Wilson v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss waiver |
Whether a complaint that states a claim may be dismissed on the grounds that a plaintiff waived an argument against dismissal by failing to make the a… |
| 22-458 |
TIG Insurance Company v. ExxonMobil Oil Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-15 |
Dismissed |
|
28-usc-455 appellate-review financial-conflict judicial-conflicts-of-interest judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal legal-procedure liljeberg-test public-confidence-in-judiciary |
Whether a court must automatically decline to vacate a judgment rendered by a judge with a financial interest in the party in whose favor he ruled, in… |
| 22-6045 |
Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus prisoner-rights |
Whether 28 U.S.C. 2241 provides federal courts of appeals substitute jurisdiction over the issues presented under the Due Process Clause |
| 22-6046 |
Terrioues Owney v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland constitutional-rights cooperating-witness due-process late-disclosure materiality materiality-standard new-trial witness-credibility |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit deny Owney's right to constitutional due process by applying an erroneous standard in ass… |
| 22-441 |
Rony Galicia v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion accomplice-confession appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination double-murder sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Whether the Sixth Amendment is violated by a denial of cross-examination into an accomplice's confession |
| 22-6025 |
Christopher Alan Mitchell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review concurrent-sentences criminal-procedure district-court final-order finality habeas-corpus section-2255 sentencing sentencing-range statutory-interpretation |
Whether an order granting relief and resentencing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 is final when the order changes the statutory sentencing range |
| 22-6028 |
John Alan Sakon v. James N. Sakonchick, et al. |
Connecticut |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-settlement court-settlement-agreement due-process res-judicata statutory-interpretation statutory-rights subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did Superior Court Judge Aurigemma err in not finding subject matter jurisdiction to enforce a Court Settlement Agreement |
| 22-5997 |
Tarence Kirkland v. New York |
New York |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-verdict cross-examination due-process evidence fair-trial identification legal-sufficiency second-degree-offense weight-of-evidence |
Was the trial court's decision on Rodriguez's identification and use of other crimes and bad acts on cross-examination result in the denial of a fair … |
| 22-5985 |
Islam Yaser-Abdel Said v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-defendants criminal-procedure facial-attacks facial-vagueness first-amendment johnson-v-united-states sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review unconstitutionally-vague |
Whether criminal defendants challenging a statute as unconstitutionally vague may raise facial attacks in cases not involving the First Amendment? |
| 22-5988 |
Clemente Hernandez-Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection judicial-standard ninth-circuit peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike racial-discrimination |
If a trial court legally errs at step three of Batson, may an appellate court resolve the factual question of whether a party acted with discriminator… |
| 22-416 |
Tuhin Kumar Biswas v. Ethan Rouen, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
|
42-U.S.C.-1983 42-usc-1983 appeal appellate-review copyright-act federal-cause-of-action first-amendment plagiarism state-actor |
Is Copyright Act the only Federal Cause of Action under which Plagiarism can be adjudicated? |
| 22-408 |
Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
|
adversary-proceeding appellate-review bankruptcy-court-order bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-procedure dismissal-with-prejudice final-order judicial-activity standing |
Whether district court's order dismissing case 6:20-ap-55 with prejudice is a final order that Eleventh Circuit must review |
| 22-5959 |
William A. White v. United States, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights court-order document-entry due-process false-statements judicial-discretion procedural-standards sanctions standing |
Did the Seventh Circuit err in upholding two orders issued by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois barring the petit… |
| 22-5952 |
Randell Joseph Redmond v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure legal-interpretation standard-of-review standing takings |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that the Firearms Owners' Protection Act (FOPA) does not preempt state laws prohibiting… |
| 22-400 |
Mark Barinholtz v. HomeAdvisor, Inc., et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-31 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-rules procedural-flexibility timeliness timeliness-doctrine |
Whether federal courts should follow strict timeliness rules for appellate review or allow flexibility to exercise rights of review in an orderly, rea… |
| 22-5924 |
Carl Jones v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standard legal-sufficiency self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Does the well-settled standard and scope of review governing claims a standard and scope of constitutional dimension prohibit an appellate court from … |
| 22-391 |
Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2022-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute appellate-procedure appellate-review case-transfer civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ghostwriting judicial-procedure standing |
Does California anti-SLAPP statute protect illegal activity? |
| 22-5879 |
Eugene Thurman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review controlled-substance criminal-law due-process fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst… |
| 22-5880 |
Sixing Liu v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability confidential-information constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection pro-se-petition proprietary-information science-and-technology |
Did the Third Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability for a claim of denial of constitutional rights? |
| 22-5834 |
Jose A. Torres v. Lisa Mitchell, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions legal-relief procedural-review standard-of-review trial-error |
Whether Mr. Torres was entitled to relief or an evidentiary hearing on his claim of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 22-345 |
Paul Siladi v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Connecticut |
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process foreclosure foreclosure-action judicial-procedure procedural-fairness standing trial |
Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court's Order Denying Petitioner's Petition for Certification to Appeal to that Court upholding the Connecticut Appell… |
| 22-350 |
In Re Yi Tai Shao |
|
2022-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process first-amendment judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief procedural-irregularities recusal recusal-issues standing |
Do the issues presented constitute exceptional circumstances warranting a Writ of Mandamus? |
| 22-5788 |
Martin Elliott Brooks v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error rule-52 sentencing-courts sentencing-guidelines |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines would make no diff… |
| 22-5792 |
Armad Jamall Gatling v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal district-court due-process merits restitution sentence-enhancement standing |
Did the Court of Appeals err in dismissing Mr. Gatling's appeal without reviewing its merits? |
| 22-5795 |
Kevin White, Jr. v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-discretion jurisdiction trial-procedure venue |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case for improper venue where the indictment indicated that the alleged crime by the defendant occu… |
| 22-5752 |
Ricardo M. Suggs, Jr. v. Warden, FCI Loretto |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review concurrent-sentence-doctrine due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the concurrent sentence doctrine can be applied to a petitioner with solely consecutive sentences |
| 22-5760 |
Philip Joseph Spear v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review breach-of-promise constitutional-violation due-process judicial-error presumed-prejudice |
Did the appellate court err by overlooking a 5th Amendment Constitutional wrong, and by omission, fail to note, by the record, a breach of promise res… |
| 22-5730 |
Quincy Campbell v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof coconspirator-testimony criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the defendant |
| 22-5733 |
Robert Brown, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial evidence fair-trial jury jury-bias perjury perjury-evidence rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment |
Whether the District Court's denial of admission of evidence regarding a Government cooperating witness committing perjury was error and affected the … |
| 22-5709 |
Erika Jacobs v. Oklahoma Tax Commission |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-29 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction standing supervisory-power |
Question not identified |
| 22-295 |
In Re Deborah Walton |
|
2022-09-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure court-order district-court due-process first-amendment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-procedure remand seventh-circuit standard-of-review |
Did the District Court err by misinterpreting the Order from the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals? |
| 22-286 |
Frieda Mae Rogers, fka Frieda Rogers Roen, et al. v. Wilmington Trust Company, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure erie-doctrine factual-stipulations federalism forum-selection judicial-admissions state-law statutes-of-limitations statutory-interpretation |
May-the-court-of-appeals-override-the-parties'-factual-stipulation |
| 22-276 |
Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, et al. |
Utah |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure contempt due-process jurisdictional-challenge rule-11 rule-83 safe-harbor vexatious-litigant |
Whether application of the contempt analysis associated with Utah R. Civ. P. 11 sanctions to review a Utah R. Civ. P. 83 Vexatious Litigant order is f… |
| 22-5668 |
Thomas Guerriero v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit judicial-review legal-argument precedent prior-precedent-rule stare-decisis |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's prior precedent rule should be overturned |
| 22-5636 |
Kathi Sorrentino v. U.S. Bank, N.A., as Trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust, et al. |
Connecticut |
2022-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process erroneous-order federal-statutory-laws judicial-procedure state-laws void-order |
If a superior court is mandated to follow a void or erroneous order from an appellate court, then what does a litigant do to protect their Constitutio… |
| 22-261 |
Estate of Najee Ali Baker, By and Through His Ancillary Administrator Jemel Ali Dixon v. Wake Forest University |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction due-process summary-judgment |
Whether a federal court of appeals violated its obligation of responsible and meaningful appellate review |
| 22-263 |
Yves Wantou v. Wal-Mart Stores Texas, L.L.C. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review cats-paw-theory hostile-work-environment racial-discrimination retaliation section-1981 summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether an appellate court is required to remand a case to the district court when the appellate court determines the district court used erroneous le… |
| 22-5609 |
Herve Wilmore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-19 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review case-law circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-delegation procedural-issue |
Whether the exception to the law of the case doctrine permit a defendant to relitigate an issue that was erroneously decided by the U.S. Court of Appe… |
| 22-5599 |
Denzell Russell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Is the Sixth Circuit's application of plain-error-review under Fed.-R.-Crim.-P.-52(b) in conflict with this Court's decisions? |
| 22-5600 |
Quincetta Y. Cargill v. Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit-of-bias appellate-review civil-rights counsel-ineffectiveness due-process judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct motion-denial personal-jurisdiction recusal standing |
Whether the district court judge's failure to disclose and respond to the petitioner's affidavit of personal bias and prejudice under 28 U.S.C. §§ 144… |
| 22-5574 |
Gregory Lamar Blackmon v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certified-question civil-procedure due-process standing state-court-proceedings |
Whether the Appellate courts erred by rephrasing a certified question after being briefed and argued as requested by the State, circumventing this Cou… |
| 22-5580 |
Derrick Dion Ingram v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearm-enhancement firearms guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the commentary to U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) is inconsistent with the guideline |
| 22-239 |
Krishna Maharaj v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2244 appellate-review court-of-appeals evidence evidence-consideration federal-procedure habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-bar successive-petition |
Whether a district court is jurisdictionally barred from considering evidence supporting a claim in a second or successive habeas petition that the co… |
| 22-242 |
Cyrano R. Irons v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Whether errors in calculating the Sentencing Guidelines are rendered categorically harmless by the district court's assertion that the Guidelines woul… |
| 22-5567 |
Lamar Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver |
Whether sentencing issue is waived where the Defendant raises, but drops an issue as part of a sentencing or subject to plain error review under Fed. … |
| 22-5541 |
Edwin Pawlowski v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review compulsory-process due-process harmless-error judicial-process re-cross-examination sixth-amendment structural-error trial-court-error |
Did the Trial Court error by improperly restricting the Defendant's right to re-cross examination in light of new matter and evidence presented by the… |
| 22-5561 |
Terrance Brooks v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review conviction due-process judicial-review napue-standard napue-v-illinois perjured-testimony perjury prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-likelihood |
Whether the Appellate Court of Illinois rejection of Mr. Brooks assertion of knowing use of perjured testimony to obtain a conviction had a reasonable… |
| 22-5540 |
David Villegas Pereznegron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings plain-error-review right-to-allocution sentencing sentencing-allocution substantial-rights |
Whether the plain and prejudicial denial of the right to allocution is an error that ordinarily warrants correction under the fourth prong of plain-er… |
| 22-5523 |
Lawrence Gaines v. Morris Houser, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Benner Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions no-adverse-inference strategic-decision trial-counsel |
Whether the court of appeals erred in reversing the district court's decision that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the omission… |
| 22-5525 |
Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. Melvin Garrett |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 accrual appellate-review civil-rights district-court federal-courts federal-law section-1983 statute-of-limitations supreme-court |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit's affirmance of the District Court's order that state law determines the time of acc… |
| 22-5527 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Tyson's Lodging, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court-affirmance civil-procedure district-court-judgment due-process equal-protection federal-courts legal-sufficiency per-curiam-opinion rule-60-motion standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Erred in the per curiam unpublished opinion and/or Judgment |
| 22-5529 |
Anthony H. Lett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states standing |
Did the court of appeals err in denying Petitioner's Rehaif v. United States, 139 S.Ct. 204 claim? |
| 22-210 |
Neil Dupree v. Kevin Younger |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure final-judgment interlocutory-orders legal-issue post-trial-motion preservation-of-claims summary-judgment |
Whether to preserve the issue for appellate review a party must reassert in a post-trial motion a purely legal issue rejected at summary judgment |
| 22-5507 |
Edward F. Swanson v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process felony-dismissal ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard |
Whether a judge can dismiss the charges after finding the defendant guilty of a second-degree felony robbery charge |
| 22-5514 |
Roland Scott, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the United States Supreme Court overturn its own precedent in Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct. 2191, 204 L. Ed. 2d 594 (2019) |
| 22-5506 |
Kacey Lewis v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2022-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial habeas-corpus judicial-discretion state-court-proceedings |
Whether the petitioner was deprived of his rights to a fair trial |
| 22-5484 |
Erika Perez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-with-other-courts criminal-procedure district-court holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 22-5470 |
Larry Marlowe Chambers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review concepcion-v-united-states criminal-resentencing district-court first-step-act judicial-discretion remand sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court commits reversible error by issuing contradictory analyses for reductions under § 404 of the First Step Act without clear exp… |
| 22-5457 |
J. Christopher Wreh v. Alex Gianotos, et al. |
Texas |
2022-08-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion motion-denial motion-practice rehearing-request standing supreme-court-procedure time-extension |
Whether the Supreme Court of Texas erred in denying the motion for extension of time to file a rehearing petition |
| 22-5449 |
Antonio Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense drug-trafficking federal-conviction federal-drug-trafficking federal-sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is it obvious error to find a prior federal drug trafficking conviction is a 'controlled substance offense' under the Sentencing Guidelines when the s… |
| 22-5400 |
Maurice D. Bell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether an appellate court errs under Fed. R. Crim. P. 51 by applying plain error review to a claim of procedural error brought to the sentencing judg… |
| 22-5390 |
Carina Conerly v. Julie G. Yap, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure due-process frivolous-appeal frivolous-claim in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding petitioners' claim to be frivolous |
| 22-5392 |
Jane Doe v. City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-accountability due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-misconduct legal-procedure |
Whether the federal court of appeals should be allowed to disregard the US Supreme Court's law, the US Code, the Federal Rules, the Constitution, the … |
| 22-5361 |
Ernest Bustos v. Bexar Appraisal District, et al. |
Texas |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure first-impression fraud fraudulent-scheme jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge plea-of-jurisdiction standing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court failed to view the Plea of Jurisdiction as a statutory-construction case |
| 22-5311 |
Willie A. Key v. Medical University of South Carolina, et al. |
South Carolina |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process filing-complaint filing-fee jurisdiction legal-procedure small-claims-court standing |
Whether the Court of Common Pleas erred in refusing to file petitioner's complaint on the ground of lack of jurisdiction? |
| 22-5314 |
Daniel Ray v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines |
Whether sentencing judges must explain why they have rejected a nonfrivolous argument made by a defendant in favor of a lower sentence |
| 22-5317 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Merrifield Hotel Associates, LP |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-08-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit-review judicial-reasoning standard-of-review standing summary-affirmance unpublished-opinion |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Erred in the Order, Dated, July 28, 2022 |
| 22-122 |
Philip Snyder v. Tenth Presbyterian Church |
Pennsylvania |
2022-08-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process factual-findings legal-review pennsylvania-law rule-of-law standard-of-review superior-court |
Did the decision of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania constitute erroneous factual findings and/or misapplication of a properly stated rule of law? |
| 22-5293 |
Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2255-motion supervisory-powers |
Did the Court of Appeals for the first Circuit err when it denied request for certificate of appealability where petitioner sought review of the Distr… |
| 22-5259 |
Elseddig Elmarioud Musa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel supreme-court-precedent |
Where a Court of Appeals denies a Petition for Issuance of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) in distegard of the rule announced in Buck v Davis" |
| 22-5255 |
Selwin Martin v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness statute-of-limitations third-circuit writ-petition |
Whether the District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the Petitioner's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus as untimel… |
| 22-5263 |
Jesse Brown v. Eric Armel, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default standard-of-review |
Whether the trial court erred in denying the petitioner's legitimate defense theory |
| 22-5232 |
Jesus Javier Cruz-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-presumption reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court should clarify how a defendant who challenges the substantive reasonableness of a within-Guidelines sentence may rebut an appellate … |
| 22-5233 |
Carina Conerly v. Yee Yang, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit abused its discretion |
| 22-5212 |
Jonita Desirrae Brown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonableness reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness or merely to see if… |
| 22-5209 |
Adam Paul Blomdahl v. Doctor Jaffe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights disclosure due-process judicial-discretion ninth-circuit standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred when it issued its Mandate without addressing the Appellants' claim of County Appellees' withholding of disclosure … |
| 22-81 |
Nathaniel Lambert v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process griffith-standard jury-unanimity prejudice rehabilitation sentencing-delay |
What test applies to excessive sentencing delay claims under the Due Process Clause, including whether prejudice is required and what prejudice counts… |
| 22-5184 |
Dwayne Stoutamire v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default section-2253 standard-of-review state-court-exhaustion |
Whether the court of appeals properly applied Section 2253 of the Certificate of Appealability statute |
| 22-5187 |
Jesus Maya-Zapata v. California |
California |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky credibility-determination judicial-procedure jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-excusal-of-a-juror reasonableness-of-stated-justifications sixth-amendment |
Whether there is a single deferential standard of appellate review for Sixth-Amendment-claims-arising-under-Batson-v-Kentucky or whether appellate cou… |
| 22-5193 |
Shaidon Blake v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge constitutional-claims due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-standard |
Did the courts err in their interpretation and application of Strickland v. Washington in petitioner's case, failing to find ineffective assistance of… |
| 22-72 |
Jerald Hammann v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. |
Minnesota |
2022-07-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-procedure law-of-case law-of-the-case lower-court-jurisdiction rule-60.02 |
Whether a lower court is obligated to abide by the law of the case even if it claims the appellate court erred |
| 22-5168 |
Rodney Mesquias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-error jurisdiction legal-standard sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming Mesquias' convictions and sentences |
| 22-5179 |
Jon Christopher Stoune v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance patent section-2255 standing takings |
Should the Court grant a Certificate of Appealability |
| 22-5137 |
Clifford Raymond Salas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process factual-errors plain-error prosecutorial-argument sentencing sentencing-variance tenth-circuit-review |
Did the Tenth Circuit wrongly hold that the district court did not plainly err, where (a) the prosecutor argued that a factually untrue reason support… |
| 22-5113 |
Jerald Francis Gray v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review bail bail-reform-act bail-review circuit-split detention-standard liberty-interest standard-of-review |
What standard of review should courts of appeals apply when reviewing district court bail decisions? |
| 22-5105 |
Tanner Lance King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness within-guidelines-sentence |
How does a court of appeals determine whether a defendant has rebutted the presumption of reasonableness when the defendant is challenging on appeal t… |
| 22-5086 |
Nouboukpo Gassesse v. University of Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection motion-for-default state-court-decisions summary-judgment trial-court-procedure |
Whether the plaintiff's 14th-amendment-due-process rights were violated by the trial court's alleged unequal treatment of the parties |
| 22-5054 |
Tyrik Upchurch v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process evidence-rules expert-testimony expert-witness-testimony judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings lay-witness-testimony new-trial standard-of-review third-circuit trial-error |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit err in failing to award the Petitioner a new trial due to the District Court's error in allowing the go… |
| 22-5056 |
Rosa Serrano v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review case-dismissal civil-procedure court-record disclosure due-process first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-standards procedural-dismissal public-records standing |
Whether the respondent properly sought publicity when dismissed without a full record, although requested, and whether the respondent's right to discl… |
| 22-5043 |
Romeo Valentin Sanchez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law enhanced-sentencing indecent-acts mandatory-minimum military-justice sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation uniform-code-of-military-justice |
whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in relying upon a now-excised provision to trigger a mandatory minimum penalty under 18 U.S.C. § 2… |
| 22-14 |
Brad Faver v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights district-court-finding due-process free-speech least-restrictive-means religious-accommodation sincerely-held-belief standing vendor-policy |
Whether the Appellate Court erred in failing to shift the burden to the Defendant's once Mr. Faver established a sincerely held belief that was burden… |
| 22-5029 |
Christopher Michael Fairley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-ruling criminal-procedure due-process error-preservation judicial-discretion legal-objection preservation-of-error standard-of-review |
Whether parties to a criminal proceeding sufficiently preserve error by informing the court |
| 22-5035 |
Irving Lisboa-Cupely v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit manifest-injustice miscarriage-of-justice plain-error |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court denied due process of the law under the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by failing to issue a certificate of… |
| 22-5018 |
Michael Allen Long v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-circuit jurisdiction plea-agreement plea-bargaining procedural-error standard-of-review waiver |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by finding that Mr. Long's appeal should be dismissed based on the waiver of appeal provision in his Plea Agreement |
| 22-5006 |
David Cadena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum upward-variance |
Did the district court impose a substantively unreasonable sentence when it varied upward from the advisory sentencing range to the statutory maximum … |
| 21-8260 |
Tracy Garrett v. Warden, FCC Coleman-USP II |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split consent constitutional-violation federal-question fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-power warrantless-search |
Whether the 11th Circuit erred in declining to entertain a 4th Amendment violation issue |
| 21-8265 |
Michael S. Gorbey v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-06-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appointment-of-counsel compassionate-release constitutional-rights covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief statutory-interpretation |
Question not identified |
| 21-8270 |
Dora L. Adkins v. Driftwood Special Servicing, LLC |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure en-banc en-banc-petition fourth-circuit judicial-procedure petition-for-rehearing petition-for-writ-of-certiorari rehearing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit further erred in the Order, Dated, May 23, 2022, that denied Petitioner's Petition f… |
| 21-8277 |
Matthew Michael Cimino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily requires the court of appeals to reweigh the sentencing factors? |
| 21-8253 |
Silas Lee Sneed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(8)(a) appellate-review attempted-hobbs-act-robbery certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence hobbs-act statutory-interpretation third-circuit united-states-v-taylor |
Whether an attempted Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(A) |
| 21-8206 |
Noble Laverne Bennett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in denying Bennett's appeal without an opportunity to be heard |
| 21-8215 |
Nathaniel Ausbie v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process government-theory jury-instructions legal-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
When a defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence for his conviction, may a court of appeals affirm based on a theory different from the one… |
| 21-8196 |
Cody Andrew Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard criminal-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error plain-unreasonable reasonableness sentencing supervised-release |
Whether appellate review of a sentence imposed after the revocation of a defendant's supervised-release term is for reasonableness or merely to see if… |
| 21-8160 |
Jamie M. Coffey v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process griffith-v-kentucky judicial-precedent retroactive-application retroactivity |
Do the State and Federal courts violate a petitioner's 14th Amendment Right to due process when they decline to apply a new rule governing a criminal … |
| 21-8141 |
Christopher G. Poeschl v. Foundation Building Materials, LLC, et al. |
Colorado |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency expert-testimony judicial-discretion legal-fraud perjury prejudice structural-error trial-procedure trial-procedures |
Whether or not fraud solidified the Colorado Appeals Affirmation |
| 21-8129 |
Radu Miclaus v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review application-note-2 circuit-split criminal-law identification-trafficking means-of-identification sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation trafficking transferring |
Did the Sixth Circuit err in holding that 'trafficking' a means of identification does not also constitute 'transferring' such identification under Se… |
| 21-8132 |
James E. Sanicki, Jr. v. Chris S. Buesgen, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review biased-juror constitutional-review due-process judicial-procedure jury-selection legal-standard peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes reversal standard-of-review |
Whether errors in jury selection resulted in seating a biased juror, or deprivation of the mandated number of peremptory challenges should have been r… |
| 21-8140 |
Richard Chippero v. Matthew J. Platkin, Acting Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency sufficiency-of-evidence |
Should Petitioner's convictions be vacated due to insufficient evidence? |
| 21-8098 |
Rocky Christian v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
anders-review appellate-procedure appellate-review fourteenth-amendment jury-instruction plain-error self-defense self-defense-instruction sixth-amendment |
Did the Fifth District Court of Appeal for the State of Florida conduct an adequate review of the record pursuant to Anders v. California 386 U.S. 738… |
| 21-8110 |
In Re Wesley Mark Sudbury |
|
2022-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine due-process evidence evidentiary-restrictions interlocutory-appeal judicial-procedure statutory-interpretation wire-tap |
Whether a statute enacted by Congress titled Prohibition of use as evidence of intercepted wire or oral communications, intended to establish a right … |
| 21-8092 |
Nicole R. Bramwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553a 18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3661 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review below-guideline-sentence collateral-consequences downward-variance sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
When can a court of appeals reverse a below-guideline sentence based on its own view that a different, more severe sentence is appropriate? |
| 21-1537 |
Donnie T. Kern v. Board of Supervisors of Alleghany County |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-1447 appellate-review civil-rights civil-rights-removal federal-officer-statute jurisdictional-review pari-materia removal removal-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether reliance on a holding by the Court in Things Remembered, Inc. v. Petrarca would prohibit an appellate court to consider all of the defendant's… |
| 21-8069 |
Billy Wayne Lewis v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure fourth-amendment rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-guidance unreasonable-search |
Has the Tenth Court of Appeals of the State of Texas made a decision in this instant case that is in direct conflict with this Court's decision and gu… |
| 21-8048 |
Michael Ray Kapp v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court compassionate-release criminal-justice federal-procedure judicial-discretion sentencing summary-affirmance |
Whether the Denial of Michael Kapp's Motion for Compassionate Release Was an Abuse of Discretion? |
| 21-8033 |
Jesus Francisco Fernandez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-cause plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions |
When a defendant raises a derivative theory on appeal that was not raised in a timely suppression motion in district court |
| 21-8039 |
George Munoz, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-homicide criminal-procedure different-outcome evidence-limitation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions motion-for-new-trial prejudice reasonable-likelihood trial |
Whether a defendant is required to show a reasonable likelihood of a different outcome at trial to establish prejudice from ineffective assistance of … |
| 21-8009 |
Joshua Rodney Meech v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process firearm-regulation huddleston-v-united-states mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states standing statutory-interpretation united-states-v-bailey |
Whether the prosecution was lawfully brought under 18 USC §922(a)(6) where the petitioner never possessed, acquired, paid for, or left a deposit for a… |
| 21-8010 |
Louis Gonzalez v. Elaine E. Bucklo, Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process immigration in-forma-pauperis judicial-procedure notice plra standing |
Whether the Seventh Circuit adopted an opinion conflicting with its earlier decision and other courts |
| 21-8015 |
Jeffrey Kinzle v. Eric Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-reasoning state-courts statutory-interpretation supreme-court |
Whether a federal court may 'look through' to review the decision of an inferior court when the high court offers additional reasoning |
| 21-7999 |
Kristine Arutyunyan v. Cindy Fields, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights diversity-jurisdiction diversity-of-citizenship federal-question pro-se public-importance standing supreme-court-rule |
Whether the pro se civil lawsuit based on federal question and diversity of citizenship has merit and should be heard by the Supreme Court |
| 21-8000 |
Elijah Johnson v. California |
California |
2022-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure general-verdict inconsistent-verdicts jury-trial reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment |
Whether a reviewing court may uphold a general verdict by relying on a specific fact the jury rejected as not proved beyond a reasonable doubt, in lig… |
| 21-1498 |
Norman Bartsch Herterich v. City and County of San Francisco, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
adjudication appellate-review constitutional-violations district-court-dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-proceedings |
Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine bars federal-district-court jurisdiction over an action merely because the action alleges Constitutional-violation… |
| 21-7988 |
Donald Tarnawa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure financial-factors financial-resources restitution restitution-modification sentencing sentencing-procedure standard-of-review |
Whether the controlling standard of review for modification under 18 USCA § 3664(k) should be de novo or abuse of description |
| 21-7980 |
Perry Singo v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2022-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-independence political-influence political-interference separation-of-powers state-constitution |
Are the attacks on the judiciary and the efforts of politicians to change the judiciary so it will do things the politicians want it to do denying due… |
| 21-7970 |
Oscar Geovanny Campos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 21-7938 |
Larry Wayne Kimes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion rule-52 |
Should federal appeals courts require district courts to explain their opinions and orders in sufficient detail to aid in appeals? |
| 21-1468 |
Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-discretion party-presentation sineneng-smith standing sua-sponte |
Whether a court of appeals violates the principle of party presentation |
| 21-7935 |
Jason K. Feister v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court due-process judicial-review legal-order petitioner-rights separation-of-powers |
WHETHER THE SECOND DISTRICT'S ORDER VIOLATES THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS |
| 21-7918 |
Jaime Gonzalo Castiblanco Cabalcante v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error jury-deliberations jury-instructions knowledge-element |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in finding that Castiblaneo failed to state a valid claim of the denial of a constitutional right? |
| 21-7903 |
Steve Ballesteros v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review attorney-ineffectiveness constitutional-limitation due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction procedural-error strickland-v-washington |
Is state-appellate-court-hindering-post-collateral-proceeding-unconstitutional |
| 21-7905 |
Marc Anthony Sanders v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure ex-post-facto jurisdictional-conflict non-retroactivity oklahoma-court state-court-decisions subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court tenth-circuit |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' use of a new non-retroactivity doctrine to deny Petitioner's subject-matter jurisdiction claim is vali… |
| 21-1458 |
EPA Drug Initiative II v. Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-doctrine hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-proceedings patent-invalidation patent-invalidity standing supervisory-power third-party-intervention |
Questions presented |
| 21-7891 |
William Ramirez-Frechel v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing |
Whether the sentence imposed is unreasonable |
| 21-7876 |
Matthew Alexander, III v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-to-suppress plain-error suppression-motion waiver |
When a defendant files a motion to suppress, then raises a new argument to support suppression in the court of appeals, is the new argument waived abs… |
| 21-7886 |
Leona Stack, et vir v. Menard, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-mandate due-process judicial-procedure mandate pro-se-litigation procedural-due-process rehearing standing summary-judgment |
Did the construal by the Seventh Circuit amount to a mis-construal in presuming the petition for en banc rehearing was a motion to recall the mandate? |
| 21-1445 |
Ellen T. Thatcher v. Department of Veterans Affairs |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process jury-determination materiality perjury summary-judgment veterans-administration |
Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals make a clear error when they termed perjury 'meritless,' failed to consider the materiality of Thatcher's perjur… |
| 21-7862 |
Mark DeWayne Hallcy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mootness ninth-circuit post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-amendment |
Does the aggravated assault with deadly weapon conviction moot the petitioner's § 2254 motion seeking relief? |
| 21-7865 |
Kra Deangelo Brooks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court eighth-circuit evidence-law fourth-amendment independent-source judicial-procedure murray-v-united-states national-importance search-warrant |
Whether an appeals court may 'implicitly find' an 'independent source' absent evidence and findings at the district court level |
| 21-7866 |
Carlos Alberto Zamudio v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guilty-plea plea-bargaining rule-11 standard-of-review withdrawal withdrawal-of-guilty-plea |
Whether the courts of appeals have improperly narrowed the 'fair and just reason' standard for evaluating a defendant's request to withdraw a guilty p… |
| 21-7852 |
Fernando Salazar-Figueroa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law fifth-circuit mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted mitigating role adjustment under… |
| 21-7824 |
Jerome Scott King v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing voluntary-waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement that bars a defendant from appealing a sentence of imprisonment violates due process and whether it can be kno… |
| 21-7826 |
Dexter Durrell Cooper v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard petition-review standing |
Whether or not the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in its constitutional analysis regarding the petitioner's bail motion |
| 21-7782 |
William Larry Foley v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial jury-verdict standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is the evidence sufficient to sustain the jury's guilty verdict? |
| 21-7767 |
Michael Don Billups v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court federal-sentencing judicial-discretion prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i… |
| 21-7769 |
Lonnell Tucker v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review base-offense-level circuit-split drug-quantity narcotics-prosecution relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Court should resolve the circuit conflict by requiring de novo review for contested methodologies used to determine Base Offense Levels in… |
| 21-7760 |
William James Siskos v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-courts fraud fraud-prevention judicial-process misconduct misrepresentation pro-se-litigants |
Did the Supreme Court err in holding that the federal courts have the right and the duty to protect themselves from fraud, misrepresentation and misco… |
| 21-7761 |
In Re Shannon Riley |
|
2022-05-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure counterclaim due-process jurisdiction punitive-damages res-judicata standing supersedeas-bond |
Can a Kansas state court reverse a Kansas appellate court on a counterclaim? |
| 21-7752 |
William Edward Gray v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment |
Whether trial counsel's failure to properly preserve error for appellate review constituted ineffective assistance |
| 21-7756 |
Robert James Swint v. Robert R. Redfield, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-deference appellate-review civil-procedure remand standard-of-review |
Whether the district court's remand to the agency constitutes a waiver of de novo review by the district court of the agency's decision on appeal |
| 21-7737 |
Justin L. Douglas v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights counsel criminal-trial due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence search-and-seizure standing trial-strategy |
Did the Supreme Court of Wisconsin err in ruling on the defendant's right to effective counsel? |
| 21-7693 |
Kenneth R. Heddlesten v. Scott Crow, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus plain-error rule-60b4 timeliness |
Whether the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals' policy of reviewing plain error only prevents appellate counsel from raising all claims of error in a … |
| 21-7694 |
Jason Paul Maple v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error constitutional-trial-error due-process harmless-error pro-se-litigant standard-of-review supreme-court-standard third-circuit trial-procedure |
Whether the Third Circuit Appellate Court adhered to the terms of harmless-error review, judged by the standard set-forth by the United States Supreme… |
| 21-7697 |
Michael Mirando, aka Michael John Mirando v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court loss-calculation sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
What standard of review applies to an appeal challenging a district court's methodology for calculating the loss amount under Section 2B1.1 of the Uni… |
| 21-7702 |
Marvin Lewis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fifth-circuit presentence-investigation-report sentencing-enhancement supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the Fifth Circuit conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on sentencing enhancements |
| 21-7705 |
Nolan Woods v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acquittal appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judgment-of-acquittal judicial-remedy re-prosecution |
Whether this Court will create a bright-line rule delineating that the only cure for a double jeopardy violation caused by dual convictions of the sam… |
| 21-7706 |
Irving Ernesto Arias v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit guilty-plea motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining sentencing |
Did the district court err in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea? |
| 21-7710 |
Hernandez Lopaz Daniels v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-v-california appellate-review counsel-withdrawal due-process eleventh-circuit frivolous-appeal frivolous-case meaningful-review |
Whether counsel can withdraw without finding the case to be 'wholly frivolous' as required by Anders v. California |
| 21-7711 |
Brenda Joyce Haynes v. Leslie G. Foschio, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict judicial-proceedings legal-interpretation standing statutory-construction supervisory-power |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the decision of another United States Court … |
| 21-7687 |
Earl Jones v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-review fact-inference jackson-standard reasonable-doubt standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-ohio |
Whether a reviewing court must consider all the evidence in determining whether inferences from basic facts to ultimate facts are reasonable to prove … |
| 21-7683 |
Nelson Conto v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-circuit interview-evidence judicial-error motion-in-limine standard-of-review trial-procedure |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's meritorious appeal of the denial of appellant's… |
| 21-7674 |
Jamie Allen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fourth-circuit reversible-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by refusing to hear Mr. Allen's meritorious claims that the district court committed reversible erro… |
| 21-7680 |
In Re Israel Romero |
|
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
abeyance administrative-law appellate-review case-suspension civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit judicial-discretion legal-procedure standing |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by placing this case in abeyance pending a decision in an unrelated case? |
| 21-7659 |
John Doe v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review business-records criminal-prosecution hearsay-exception interrogation-statements miranda-rights outsider-source standard-of-review trustworthiness |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's error of admitting the 795-SSA form through the business records exception to the… |
| 21-7662 |
Michael Wayne Cook v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion federal-sentencing judicial-standard prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-guidelines |
Whether courts of appeals evaluating the prejudicial effect of a Guideline error must accept a district court's claim that the Guidelines exerted no i… |
| 21-7646 |
Jason Delacerda v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychiatric-evidence psychiatric-testimony sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the appellate court err in failing to find that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction and death sentence? |
| 21-7651 |
Manuel Martinez v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights post-conviction-relief trial-strategy |
Whether the defendant was denied effective assistance of counsel where defense counsel failed to adequately understand and present the significance of… |
| 21-7643 |
Daniel Trejo v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process duress fourth-district-court jury-instructions penal-code statutory-interpretation |
Whether the statutory definition of duress under Penal Code Sections 26 and 288 is analogous |
| 21-7628 |
Cedric Lee Goliday v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review constitutional-infringement constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion petition-review pro-se |
Whether a federal habeas court can intentionally slight, dissemble, and neglect a pro se applicant's petition |
| 21-7626 |
Joseph Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez judicial-discretion sentencing-argument sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 21-1351 |
Don Barnes, Sheriff, Orange County, California, et al. v. Melissa Ahlman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review judicial-error merits-review miller-v-french mootness preliminary-injunction prison-litigation-reform-act standing supreme-court-stay |
Whether a preliminary injunction issued under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and stayed by this Honorable Court shall evade appellate review … |
| 21-1352 |
Vivian Tat, aka Vivian Lnu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure fundamental-rights jury-instructions plain-error-review rogers-error rogers-v-united-states standard-of-review |
Does plain error review govern claims of Rogers error on appeal, as the Ninth Circuit held below, or are such claims reviewed for harmlessness beyond … |
| 21-1347 |
Kevas L. Ballance v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split clear-error criminal-procedure de-novo-review district-court standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling |
When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court review factual findings for clear error and the ultimate legal determination… |
| 21-1349 |
Ignis Development, Inc., et al. v. Long Island College Hospital, et al. |
New York |
2022-04-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion new-york-law statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Did the Second Department of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York create an illegal and irrebuttable presumption in New York State … |
| 21-1345 |
Jeffrey B. C. Moorhead v. Glenda Lake, Clerk, District Court of the Virgin Islands, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1291 28-usc-47 appellate-review district-court judicial-bias judicial-procedure lawyer-suspension legal-practice mandamus-relief notice-of-appeal statutory-interpretation |
Does a lawyer have the statutory right to appeal a final order suspending the lawyer from the practice of law? |
| 21-7588 |
Gloria Marigny v. Centene Management Company LLC |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-144 appellate-review bias civil-rights conflict-of-interest district-court document-admissibility due-process federal-procedure judicial-recusal standing summary-judgment |
Why Judge Brett Ludwig Denied Motion for Recusal |
| 21-7589 |
Mark A. Brown v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence reasonable-doubt |
Whether the Court of Appeals finding that the state Courts conviction was based on a reasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence pr… |
| 21-7573 |
Jean Lynn Lillie v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-abuse judicial-discretion motion-to-continue standing takings trial-continuance witness-availability |
Whether the state government's alleged deceptive or fraudulent practices to obtain monies from American citizens, including through the use of predato… |
| 21-7561 |
Ana Duarte-Pineda v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-review conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure due-process indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance pro-se-response sixth-amendment sua-sponte-replacement |
Whether an appellate court has a duty to replace a defendant's appellate counsel with unconflicted counsel when the defendant's pro se response to an … |
| 21-7538 |
Clyde Otis Alston, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment sentencing |
Whether the Court below erred in denying relief upon the substantially unreasonable sentence |
| 21-7544 |
Erskine D. Salter v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review conflict constitutional-law due-process eleventh-circuit federal-question legal-procedure united-states-constitution |
Did the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decide a federal question in a way in conflict with the Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution… |
| 21-1322 |
Jan M. Sensenich v. PHH Mortgage Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
appellate-review bad-faith bankruptcy-court-enforcement bankruptcy-rule-3002.1 bankruptcy-sanctions inherent-authority inherent-judicial-power judicial-power punitive-fines rule-enforcement |
Whether appellate courts may affirm a bankruptcy sanctions order on an alternate correct ground even if the order does not analyze the ground |
| 21-1313 |
Martin Gottesfeld v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-04-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split due-process judicial-discretion judicial-recusal procedural-due-process speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation |
Whether a different judge can make the requisite 'ends of justice' findings to support a continuance under the Speedy Trial Act |
| 21-7492 |
In Re Jonathan Manwell |
|
2022-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review confrontation constitutional-rights counsel-of-choice criminal-procedure discovery due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel forensic-evidence impartial-tribunal |
Does petitioner have a constitutional right to located and confirmed exculpatory forensic evidence, transcripts, and documents necessary for a meaning… |
| 21-7477 |
Roberto Cruz-Rivera v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split due-process federal-jurisdiction lambert-v-california notice notice-requirement section-2250(a) statutory-interpretation title-18 united-states-code |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit entered a decision in conflict with the decision of this Court when it held in Unit… |
| 21-7481 |
Timothy K. Prince v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias michigan-supreme-court neglected-issues pecuniary-interest procedural-default trial-counsel |
Did the Michigan Supreme Court err in refusing to review claims of judicial bias, ineffective assistance of trial and appellate counsel |
| 21-7463 |
James Edward Sandford, III v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-justice-reform judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief prison-population rehabilitation sentencing supervisory-power supreme-court-power |
When should a court consider a defendant's post-sentencing rehabilitation |
| 21-7469 |
Jermeal White v. Ronald Erdos, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process legal-proceeding pro-se summary-judgment video-evidence |
Did the district court and the United States Court of Appeals fail to consider Petitioner's opposition to Respondent's cross-motion for summary judgme… |
| 21-7462 |
John Moses Burton, IV v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-defense due-process grammatical-interpretation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-constraints statute-of-limitations strickland-vs-washington toussie-vs-united-states word-meanings |
Question not identified |
| 21-7443 |
Roberto Arenas-Tellez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court guideline-range holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Gui… |
| 21-7430 |
Roberto Padilla Espinoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection fifth-circuit-review judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly approved the district court's decision to increase the petitioner's sentence based on unscored prior convictions |
| 21-1280 |
In Re J. Cory Cordova |
|
2022-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-authority fifth-circuit full-faith-and-credit improper-removal judicial-removal procedural-fairness removal subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Fifth Circuit exceeded its constitutional and appellate authority |
| 21-7411 |
Richard E. Platt v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default slack-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
Whether the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the certificate of appealability pursuant to Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473, 120 S.Ct. 159… |
| 21-7395 |
Konstantinos Zografidis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus second-circuit writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals en banc err in failing to reverse the District Court's ruling denying my Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus … |
| 21-7375 |
Rodolfo Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure investigative-detention investigative-stop law-enforcement-interaction search-and-seizure standard-of-review voluntary-consent |
What is the appropriate standard to be applied in determining whether an encounter with police was consensual or an investigative stop? |
| 21-7357 |
Joel Castro-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-discretion guidelines judicial-reasoning legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a district court errs should reference or address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range? |
| 21-7346 |
Avian Brule v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion revocation-standard sentencing supervised-release |
What is the appellate standard of review applicable to sentences imposed following revocation of supervised release? |
| 21-7332 |
Marlon Sisnero-Gil v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the Petition should be granted because the Court of Appeals' decision holding that Petitioner's sentence was not substantively unreasonable co… |
| 21-7338 |
Chandler Saxton v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2022-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conviction cumulative-error due-process fair-trial judicial-review medical-issues procedural-error trial-court |
Whether the cumulative errors in the lower court proceedings, including the failure to properly consider medical issues, resulted in a denial of the p… |
| 21-7323 |
Russell Hampton v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy jury-instructions juvenile-delinquency juvenile-delinquency-act post-majority-misconduct presentence-report presumption-of-retaliation sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a jury must be instructed that it cannot convict unless it finds the defendant 'ratified' his participation in a charged conspiracy by post-ma… |
| 21-1226 |
Michael Washington v. Florida Department of Transportation |
Florida |
2022-03-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-waiver counsel-representation due-process forfeiture fundamental-rights right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-rights waiver |
Whether the reasoning in Olano applies in a civil context where the failure of a party's counsel to object to closing argument due to misconduct or ne… |
| 21-7299 |
Rasheed Ali Muhammad v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction |
Whether petitioner's conviction was reviewed in violation of due process and equal protection rights |
| 21-7306 |
Jonathan Mota v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellant-standard appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-rights criminal-procedure cumulative-error district-court due-process judicial-error legal-prejudice prejudice |
What degree of error and of prejudice must an appellant show with respect to individuals errors of the district court before those errors may be consi… |
| 21-7315 |
Michael Lynn Cash v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights court-decision due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-reasoning pro-se procedural-fairness standing successive-petitions |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion as successive without considering the petitioner's claims on t… |
| 21-7280 |
Sammie Carroll v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-special-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency jail-call-evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland err in ruling that the evidence adduced at trial was sufficient to sustain a conviction? |
| 21-7273 |
Terron Gerhard Dizzley v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review double-jeopardy false-imprisonment federal-question lack-of-jurisdiction supreme-court-decisions trial-court-jurisdiction writ-of-mandamus |
Did the United Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit decide an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions of thi… |
| 21-7242 |
Michael Wayne Kelly v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause confrontation-right criminal-defense evidence evidence-exclusion right-to-present-defense sixth-amendment trial-court-error witness-testimony |
Did the Court of Appeals err in excluding evidence that deprived Petitioner of his Sixth Amendment right |
| 21-1191 |
Gabriel Gonzalez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review article-iii article-iii-power federal-courts in-forma-pauperis prison-litigation-reform-act statutory-interpretation strikes ultra-vires |
Whether federal district courts exceed their statutory or Article III power by issuing proclamations that their dismissal 'counts as a 'strike' within… |
| 21-1177 |
Philip Jay Fetner v. Kevin R. McCarthy |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-court bias constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias recusal |
Was Debtor's fundamental right to due process violated by the Bankruptcy Court's bias and failure to recuse itself? |
| 21-7203 |
Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Michael Schwab |
Oregon |
2022-02-25 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
adverse-judgment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-dismissal due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements procedural-default service-of-notice service-of-process standing |
Was it justified for the appellate commissioner to dismiss Petitioner's appeal |
| 21-7211 |
Theodore William Taylor v. The Kendall Law Group, P.L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-interpretation legal-ethics misconduct statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the district court's order dismissing the plaintiff's civil complaint without considerin… |
| 21-7198 |
Remel Ahart v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether Massachusetts's appellate review prov appellate-review collateral-review criminal-procedure equal-protection ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel postconviction-review procedural-default sixth-amendment |
When a court issues a procedural ruling not to extend the benefits of a new rule collaterally to those who did not preserve their claim, does the Sixt… |
| 21-7188 |
Elishay Banks v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review counsel-performance criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error ninth-circuit standard-of-review |
Is it error by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to fail to consider the petitioner's argument concerning the ineffective assistance of counsel obvio… |
| 21-7170 |
Deborah Bowers and Steve S. Jabar, aka Steve Shariff, aka Satar Jabar, aka Kamal Jabar, aka Kamal Jamel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1001 appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure false-statements fraud fraud-theory indictment materiality materiality-standard prosecutorial-discretion statutory-interpretation |
May a court of appeals reinstate a verdict on a theory of fraud that was not pled in the indictment, not sought to be proven or argued at the trial, n… |
| 21-7172 |
Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review equal-protection mootness preliminary-injunction vacatur |
Whether a final order of dismissal automatically moots an interlocutory appeal of an order denying preliminary injunctive relief |
| 21-1139 |
Daikin Industries, Ltd., et al. v. The Chemours Company FC, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure administrative-procedure-act agency-deference appellate-review factual-determination factual-review judicial-review remand separation-of-powers |
Whether a federal appellate court may reverse an administrative agency's decision on a factual ground not addressed by the agency, without a remand to… |
| 21-1119 |
Paul Francis v. John O. Desmond, United States Trustee |
First Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
11-usc-521 11-usc-727 appellate-review bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure court-of-appeals discharge-denial due-process judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation sua-sponte |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals committed error when affirming judgment from the Bankruptcy Court Appellate Panel refusing to reverse the B… |
| 21-1100 |
3M Company, et al. v. George Amador |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
appellate-review daubert-standard daubert-v-merrell-dow evidence-admissibility expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-702 general-electric-v-joiner judicial-gatekeeping pending-mdl reliability-threshold standard-of-review |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's standard of initial admissibility for expert testimony conflicts with this Court's precedents and Federal Rule of Evidenc… |
| 21-7081 |
Marko Stasiv v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion jury-coercion jury-trial motion-for-new-trial |
Was the Defendant entitled to a hearing on jury coercion? |
| 21-7072 |
Dontrell R. Wise v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-dealing due-process expert-testimony sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Dontrell Wise's conviction which was not supported by sufficient evidence to prove his … |
| 21-1094 |
Jacques Jean Kabongo v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review batson-challenge due-process equal-protection fair-trial jury-selection structural-error supreme-court-review |
Whether the Michigan Supreme Court's application of Batson was objectively unreasonable |
| 21-1070 |
Gabriela Gonzalez v. Harvey Roney, et al. |
Arizona |
2022-02-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-findings due-diligence due-process judicial-error material-fact procedural-default standing |
Whether the Arizona Appellate Court erred in its findings regarding material facts, procedural default, due diligence, and the possibility of a cure b… |
| 21-1062 |
Keith Robert Caldwell, Sr. v. Department of Transportation, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal-of-defendants due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice safety-act |
Did the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals circumvent the appeals process by ignoring significant evidence which demonstrated that the district court trial… |
| 21-7019 |
Runnie Myles v. Jay Jacobs, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure due-process fairly-traceable-standard first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation proximate-cause-analysis standing standing-requirement sua-sponte-dismissal |
Whether the circuit court committed reversable error when it dismissed Petitioner's case on an issue of fact that was never noticed or briefed and tha… |
| 21-7029 |
David Pedder v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment actual-innocence appellate-review brady-v-maryland certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus substantial-availability-test |
whether-federal-habeas-petitioner-deprived-of-constitutional-rights-to-due-process |
| 21-7033 |
Oscar Alvarado v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review co-defendant-statement confrontation-clause harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause was violated |
| 21-7000 |
Dominic Dean Adams v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Did the court of appeals err in affirming Mr. Adams' conviction? |
| 21-7005 |
Adam M. DeVore v. Kenneth Black, Warden |
Ohio |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-indictment due-process fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-change location-modification ohio-supreme-court venue |
Whether the location of an alleged offense can be changed post-appeal and whether such a change violates due process |
| 21-6984 |
Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process fraud judgment judgment-standard legal-appealability motion-dismissal procedural-rules standing |
Question not identified |
| 21-6992 |
Michael Rocky Lane v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing ninth-circuit sentencing summary-affirmance |
Whether the denial of Michael Lane's motion for compassionate release was an abuse of discretion? |
| 21-1049 |
Alice Guan v. Ellingsworth Residential Community Association, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review automatic-stay bankruptcy-court bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process final-order judicial-order laws-of-the-united-states rule-3007 |
Whether bankruptcy court violated Petitioner's rights |
| 21-6966 |
Juan Sampel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review drug-quantity due-process evidence evidence-withholding government-misconduct judicial-discretion sentencing |
Does an appellate court violate principles of Due Process when it disregards substantial evidence which questions a district court's drug quantity fin… |
| 21-6968 |
Jay Anthony Jones v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-protection criminal-procedure criminal-remand double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion north-carolina-v-pearce sentencing sentencing-enhancement twigg-v-state |
Is the State of Maryland's case Twigg v. State, 447 Md. 1 (2016) afoul of the long standing principal set forth in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. … |
| 21-6937 |
Colin Michael v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court district-court-discretion judicial-presumption rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-sentencing-commission |
Should an appellate court automatically presume that a within-or-below-guideline sentence is substantively reasonable when the underlying rationale fo… |
| 21-6912 |
Jamar Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review cell-phone-data constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 21-6914 |
Michael Patrick Kennedy v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights dismissal-standard due-process fifth-circuit-interpretation judicial-proceedings pro-se-representation standing successive-petitions supervisory-power |
Whether a dismissal without prejudice is in fact a dismissal with prejudice |
| 21-1028 |
International Energy Ventures Management, L.L.C. v. United Energy Group, Ltd. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure clear-error-standard deference fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure litigation-conduct rule-52a standard-of-review |
Whether prejudice is part of the test for litigation conduct waiver in the context of an arbitration clause |
| 21-6888 |
Ryan Kenneth Richmond, aka Rich v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review attempted-murder criminal-defendant criminal-procedure plea-agreement relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines |
Does a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a within guideline's sentence bar appellate review where the district court used a cross ref… |
| 21-6860 |
Lanny Jay Lyerla, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law court-correction due-process harmless-error judicial-error manifest-injustice plain-error procedural-fairness witness-testimony |
When an action of the court causes a harmless error to become plain error, is there due process for the defendant to apply to the court? |
| 21-6863 |
Nesly Loute v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remand section-2255 |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability |
| 21-6845 |
In Re Willie S. Smith |
|
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
acquittal appeal appellate-review constitutional-injury criminal-procedure due-process judgment-of-acquittal judicial-discretion legal-remedy usurpation-of-power |
Is it clear and indisputable that respondent Judges have a duty to enter a judgement of acquittal pursuant to 'Ball' and Crim. Rule 29? |
| 21-989 |
Jean Coulter v. Paul Laurence Dunbar Community Center, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review bias district-court due-process extrajudicial-source-doctrine judicial-bias pervasive-bias third-circuit |
Has Bias/Pervasive Bias violated Due Process in both the District Court and the Third Circuit? |
| 21-991 |
Diana Berber v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-civil-procedure hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-precedent klapprott-v-united-states liljeberg-v-health-services-acquisition-corp manifest-injustice rule-60-motion |
Did the Court of Appeals, despite the presence of the requisite 'extraordinary circumstances', by affirming the District Court's denial of Petitioner … |
| 21-6788 |
Bernard Lindsey v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review cell-phone-search cell-phones drug-crimes drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-particularity |
Whether the mere presence of two cell phones in the petitioner's home provided sufficient grounds to search their entire contents |
| 21-6806 |
Armin Wand, III v. Gary Boughton, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability coerced-confession confession-suppression constitutional-provisions due-process manifest-injustice newly-discovered-evidence plea-withdrawal stay-of-proceedings unreliable-confession |
Should Armin Wand,III's September 9,2012 statement have been suppressed? |
| 21-981 |
Lan Tu Trinh v. David Fineman |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
|
12(b)(6) 12b6-motion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-immunity pro-se-action quasi-judicial-immunity receiver-appointment section-1983 standing |
Did the district court err by granting the receiver's motion to dismiss on immunity grounds under Rule 12(b)(6)? |
| 21-6780 |
In Re Lori Sklar |
|
2022-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-disqualification due-process fourteenth-amendment impartial-tribunal judicial-misconduct mandamus-relief retroactive-disqualification |
Whether the California Supreme Court should be ordered to grant an appellate review do-over when due-process compels a permanently-removed-judge's ret… |
| 21-6764 |
In Re Eric Denorris Kennedy |
|
2022-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-rule civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-issues legal-standards procedural-rights standing |
Whether the petitioner's successive habeas corpus petition should be granted |
| 21-6755 |
Kenny Pugh v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule in-forma-pauperis judicial-district legal-representation search-and-seizure state-court state-courts |
Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the trial court denied his motion to suppress evidence obtained from an unlawful sea… |
| 21-6744 |
Jose D. Resto-Figueroa v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule first-circuit in-forma-pauperis pro-se-petition probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search |
Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless search of his vehicle |
| 21-6736 |
Steven R. Henson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-28 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-knowledge appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instructions medical-practitioner prescription-liability statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence willful-blindness |
Whether the erroneous issuance of a deliberate ignorance or willful blindness instruction is harmless as a matter of law and beyond appellate review w… |
| 21-6696 |
L. W. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure deadlines due-process jurisdiction jurisdiction-termination standing statutory-interpretation texas-family-code trial-court-procedure |
Did trial court commence prior to losing jurisdiction under Tex. Fam. Code § 263.401 |
| 21-6666 |
Jabari J. Johnson v. James Johnson, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-of-appeals district-court due-process legal-review military-service standing supreme-court |
Was the district court's discretion regarding issue A erroneous? |
| 21-6677 |
Shawn Pinson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review conclusions-of-law constitutional-rights due-process findings-of-fact habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process texas-criminal-appeals trial-court-findings |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is violating procedural due process by denying relief to habeas applicants without explanation when the tr… |
| 21-6690 |
Joe Pyatt v. AECOM Technical Services, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-shifting civil-rights discrimination-framework disparate-treatment district-court due-process employment-discrimination judicial-precedent mcdonnell-douglas precedent title-vii |
Whether the district court, as well as the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, can overrule the precedent of this court set in McDonnell Douglas Corp. … |
| 21-6660 |
Joshua Vance Jones v. Emily Ridder, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review arbitrary-and-capricious civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process legal-remedy procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment untimely-filing |
Did the Appellate Court err when acting in direct violation of the facts of the case, the Rules of the Court, and the codified laws of the United Stat… |
| 21-6671 |
Valente Arias-Avila v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing-factors standard-of-review |
Can appellate courts reweigh sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) |
| 21-6679 |
Juan Jarmon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-law crack-cocaine criminal-law evidence evidentiary-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review united-states-v-pressler |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals entered a decision in conflict with the decision of United States v. Pressler |
| 21-6662 |
Bryant Christopher Watts v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmative-defense appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process reasonable-doubt self-defense standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court |
Did the court of appeals err in affirming the trial court where evidence is insufficient to rebut the affirmative defense of self-defense beyond a rea… |
| 21-6663 |
Asher Abid Khan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-deference remand sentencing |
Did the Court of Appeals fail to accord due deference to the district court's reasons for reimposing the same sentence after remand? |
| 21-6664 |
Robert Breest v. John M. Formella, Attorney General of New Hampshire |
First Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sullivan-v-louisiana |
Did the First Circuit err in denying Robert Breest relief from judgment pertaining to the First Circuit's 1981 holding in Breest v. Perrin, 655 F.2d 1… |
| 21-6629 |
Jimmy Steele v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process first-step-act judicial-interpretation retroactivity sentencing state-court statutory-interpretation |
Whether Congress intended a sentencing reduction under the First Step Act of 2018 to apply retroactively to defendants sentenced before the Act's enac… |
| 21-6643 |
Leonus Stevenson Peterson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-circuit appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit knowing-and-voluntary miscarriage-of-justice plea-waiver standard-of-review |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in finding that Petitioner's plea waiver was knowing and voluntary and then applying a stricter standard than a number of o… |
| 21-6624 |
Arthur F. Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-court-procedure federalism habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdiction-dispute standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the axon exclusive soars decision rule should have precluded the district court and the appellate court from exercising jurisdiction over the … |
| 21-6612 |
Brian Cavitt v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dna-integrity due-process fair-trial forensic-evidence misleading-jury perjury quality-assurance trial-procedure |
Where an incomplete DNA profile allegedly from a knife handle is falsely or scientifically concluded to be a 'match' to a victim's complete DNA profil… |
| 21-6580 |
Kevin Johnson v. Troy Steele, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review batson-claim Batson-v-Kentucky capital-habeas capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability eighth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel Martinez-v-Ryan |
Does the Eighth Circuit's practice of issuing unexplained blanket denials of certificates of appealability in capital habeas cases conflict with 28-U.… |
| 21-6587 |
Marcus Termaine Darden v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert harmless-error hearsay hearsay-testimony sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err by holding the district court's errors in admitting police 'gang expert' and other hearsay testimony were h… |
| 21-6557 |
Tekoa Glover v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea non-jurisdictional-claim sixth-amendment waiver withdrawal |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit err by ruling that Mr. Glover waived his Sixth Amendment claims by entering a guilty ple… |
| 21-6542 |
Juan Trujillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure judicial-discretion limited-remand plain-error remand-standard sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a limited remand to assess the impact of a plain error on a defendant's substantial rights extends to miscalculations of the statutory maximum |
| 21-6521 |
Jamar Allen v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-provisions court-filing due-process hallucinogenic-drug judicial-process legal-document procedural-rules reasons-for-granting-writ scotus-petition victim-testimony |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires the burden of proof to be met if the only evidence justifying the petitioner as the shooter is the victim's te… |
| 21-6532 |
Mary Noel Kruppe v. California |
California |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process homicide malice murder-prosecution recklessness retroactive-law |
Whether the Appellate court's dramatic expansion of the law of homicides in People v. Watson (1981) 30 Cal. 3d 240 violates the defendant's due proces… |
| 21-6503 |
Pradeep Gupte v. University of Connecticut |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-pornography civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process federal-criminal-law federal-jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 21-6473 |
Michael Stumph v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP |
Appellate-Review Cruel-and-Unusual-Punishment Due-Process eighth-amendment Equal-Protection fourteenth-amendment Procedural-Due-Process sentencing-discretion |
Whether Ohio Revised Code § 2953.08(D)(3) violates the Eighth-Amendment |
| 21-6490 |
Earl McCoy v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review crime-of-violence fair-trial hobbs-act impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality mcdonough-standard new-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in analyzing the Petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to trial by a fair and impartial jury |
| 21-6491 |
Lucas Montagne v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure exception illegal-sentence invited-error judicial-procedure legal-error sentencing |
Should an exception to the doctrine of invited error be recognized in a case in which an illegal sentence is imposed? |
| 21-818 |
EGAE, LLC, et al. v. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-review appellate-review civil-monetary-penalties constitutional-claims constitutional-issues due-process hud judicial-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals may refuse to consider constitutional issues raised at the administrative level when reviewing the Secretary of Housing a… |
| 21-807 |
In Re Amelia Eng |
|
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction disqualified-judge due-process judicial-disqualification judicial-procedure retroactive-disqualification standing writ-of-mandate |
Whether the California Supreme Court should be directed to order appellate review of Petitioner's appeal before a court of appeal having jurisdiction |
| 21-6455 |
Anthony Pretty On Top v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amendment-violation appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-standard |
Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were not violated? |
| 21-6465 |
Andrew John Gibson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process non-delegation-doctrine overbreadth sentencing-conditions supervised-release third-party-notification vagueness |
Must federal appellate courts adjudicate direct appeal challenges to the illegality or unconstitutionality of supervised release conditions imposed at… |
| 21-6447 |
Logan Bailey Lawrence v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process estoppel government-discretion waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Government should be estopped from precluding appellate review of the District Court's refusal to impose a below-Guidelines sentence by in… |
| 21-6431 |
Vegas D. Smith v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure explanation judicial-discretion procedural-error record sentencing sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit commit error when it affirmed the District Court's decision to deny petitioner's motion filed under 18… |
| 21-6416 |
Bradford S. Davic v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea mandatory-sentences mandatory-sentencing sex-offender-registration trial-court-notification void-plea |
Is a petitioner denied due process of law, and is his guilty plea void, where his plea was not entered knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily, due t… |
| 21-6426 |
Lee Dale White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 21-6383 |
Harinder Singh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split concealment criminal-conviction drug-proceeds federal-statute insufficient-evidence money-laundering regalado-cuellar statutory-interpretation |
Where the evidence at trial was insufficient was insufficient to prove that the design or purpose of the cash transmittals was to 'conceal or disguise… |
| 21-765 |
In Re Kelaco Corporation, dba Kelaco Construction Company |
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2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts appellate-review due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment |
Where a Florida state appellate court finds enough merit to an appeal such that it holds an oral argument but, after the oral argument, refuses to iss… |
| 21-6348 |
Rafael Ramiro-Medina v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge criminal-procedure discriminatory-intent equal-protection fact-finding jury-selection procedural-error racial-discrimination standard-of-review |
Whether a federal court of appeals can conduct appellate fact-finding and resolve the factual question of discriminatory intent under Batson v. Kentuc… |
| 21-6363 |
Diane Arellano v. Jeremy Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure cumulative-effect-of-error due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights sixth-amendment |
Does it violate her right to a speedy trial |
| 21-6359 |
Corey J. Zinman v. Nova Southeastern University, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-access federal-magistrate-judges injunctive-relief judicial-administration judicial-jurisdiction magistrate-judges statutory-authority |
Whether magistrate judges exceed their statutory authority by issuing orders with the practical effect of granting or refusing injunctive relief |
| 21-6325 |
Leslie Reed v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-court-review civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-precedent judicial-review precedent standard-of-review supreme-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals had decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with the relevant decisions… |
| 21-6334 |
Christopher Jason Henry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-standard circuit-court harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states procedural-error procedural-reasonableness rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Whether the sentencing adjustment in U.S.S.G. § 5G1.3(b) is completely advisory |
| 21-6285 |
Gary Hughbanks v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
admissibility-of-evidence appellate-review brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confession-evidence criminal-procedure due-process materiality-analysis sixth-circuit suppressed-evidence |
Are another individual's repeated statements confessing to the murders for which the defendant is on trial material for purpose of assessing the impac… |
| 21-6292 |
Jason R. Bohlinger v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus section-2254 standing |
Whether the Northern District of Indiana erred by denying Bohlinger habeas relief as untimely under section 2254 habeas corpus Rule 4, and by redactin… |
| 21-6295 |
Jmarreon Mack v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review attempt controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense deference fifth-circuit judicial-deference sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals err in deferring to the Sentencing Commission's use of commentary to expand the definition of 'controlled subst… |
| 21-6274 |
Ricky Rivera v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-courts standing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with decisions of this Court and creates a split in the Cir… |
| 21-6240 |
Michael Roger Clemons, aka Chinaman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court guidelines-error harmless-error sentencing-error standard-of-review |
Whether any procedural sentencing error can be deemed harmless if the district court announces, without further explanation, that it would have impose… |
| 21-6258 |
Ramiro Romero v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
andrus-v-texas appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation strickland strickland-standard |
Whether an attorney's failure to interview a defendant's requested witnesses due to a mistaken assumption of adversity constitutes a deficient investi… |
| 21-6260 |
Samuel Lee Murchison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review credibility-determination factual-findings findings-of-fact fourth-circuit judicial-procedure standard-of-review trial-court video-evidence |
Did the Fourth Circuit err by employing a 'particularly defer[entional]' standard of review to findings of fact by the trial court that did not involv… |
| 21-6235 |
Brandon Marquis Jennings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment life-sentence miller-v-alabama presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the appellate review for reasonableness of a life sentence lacks sufficient scrutiny |
| 21-691 |
FG SRC LLC v. Microsoft Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
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appellate-review arthrex-ruling civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-circuit gvr-order patent standing summary-decision takings |
Whether the Federal Circuit's summary decisions should be vacated and remanded to cure the constitutional violation in accordance with Arthrea v. Unit… |
| 21-6207 |
Philip Bernard Friend v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review comparable-cases comparative-sentencing criminal-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines juvenile-offenders sentencing-disparities sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-review |
Whether an appellate court reviewing a sentence for substantive reasonableness should consider, when presented, a comparison between the instant case … |
| 21-6184 |
Mark Bitzan v. Chris Tripp, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review court-discretion court-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel petition-for-rehearing |
Where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit granted permission to file an overlength Petition for Rehearing and then denies the Petition for… |
| 21-6185 |
Rodney Smith v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion downward-departure judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Was the District Court's decision not to depart downward appropriate? |
| 21-6190 |
Joe Lewis Finley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice-reform first-step-act section-404 sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 21-6168 |
Vance L. White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review blakely-v-washington constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did Judge Katsten M. Culney violate the strictures of Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 (2004) self-incrimination? |
| 21-645 |
Oklahoma v. Chandler Kyle Ned |
Oklahoma |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appellate-review criminal-law federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-rights oklahoma-criminal-law stare-decisis statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-6130 |
Brett Allan Corrigan, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure drug-offense firearm sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review weapon-enhancement |
Whether the district court's finding that a weapon was connected to the drug offense under §2D1.1(b)(1) was clear error |
| 21-6100 |
Rodrigo Martinez-Mendoza v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error clear-error-standard due-process factual-findings immigration immigration-law law-enforcement-testimony public-confidence standard-of-review |
whether-appellate-court-reviewing-factual-findings-for-clear-error-must-take-account-of-undisputed-contrary-evidence |
| 21-606 |
Donald Shooter v. Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection free-speech legislative-immunity legislative-procedure qualified-immunity standing |
Does this case present an important question not previously decided by the Supreme Court in which an elected member of the Arizona Legislature engaged… |
| 21-6070 |
Alan Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process jurisdiction standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals abused its discretion in not protecting Petitioner's constitutional right to not be deprived of liberty, where Petitioner… |
| 21-608 |
Oklahoma v. Laurie Jean Martin |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty stare-decisis state-sovereignty statutory-interpretation tribal-jurisdiction |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-6082 |
Craig D. Miller v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review fundamental-fairness illinois-post-conviction-statute indigent-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reliability-of-proceedings sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Illinois courts' mechanical, outcome-based approach to the Strickland standard routinely denies indigent defendants their Sixth Amendment … |
| 21-6045 |
Melissa Richardson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency involuntary-confession judicial-error miranda-rights motion-to-suppress right-to-counsel |
Whether the 5th Circuit erred in denying Richardson's motion to suppress |
| 21-586 |
Peter Daza v. Indiana, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion discovery due-process judicial-procedure litigation-strategy lucky-brand-v-marcel rehiring sineneng-smith-v-us summary-judgment |
Is the Seventh Circuit decision contrary to Supreme Court precedent on later claims and preclusion of later events? |
| 21-6052 |
Lawrence Eliot Mattison v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-circuit administrative-exhaustion administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default standing tort tort-claim |
Whether the 4th Circuit Appellate court may condone or ignore a tort claim that lacked Administrative-exhaustion |
| 21-577 |
Fredric N. Eshelman v. Puma Biotechnology, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure damages damages-challenge defamation federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judgment-as-matter-of-law rule-50 sufficiency-of-evidence unitherm unitherm-precedent |
Whether a defendant who did not file a Rule 50 motion for judgment as a matter of law in the district court can nonetheless raise a sufficiency of the… |
| 21-6013 |
Zachary Scott Reed v. Michael Dixon, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clear-error due-process judicial-fairness pro-se-plaintiff qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the failure of the district court and the appellate court to ensure an earlier legal decision is fair and just and subsequent disregard of a p… |
| 21-5996 |
Jayson Thomas Weiss v. California |
California |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence presented was sufficient to support the conviction |
| 21-6006 |
Cory Wayne Kilgore v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment address-connection appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probable-cause search-warrant |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the search warrant affidavit provided adequate basis for probable cause? |
| 21-6007 |
Carlton Potts, aka Pep v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion factual-developments fair-sentencing-act first-step-act legal-developments sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court must or may consider intervening legal and factual developments when deciding to impose a reduced sentence under the First St… |
| 21-6008 |
Keyaira Porter v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge comparative-juror-analysis criminal-procedure equal-protection jury-selection racial-discrimination standard-of-review trial-procedure |
Whether a trial court must make express rulings at Batson's third step |
| 21-6017 |
Charles Louis v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review brady-violations constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-procedure prosecutorial-misconduct state-habeas |
Questions presented |
| 21-5969 |
Derrick E. Steilman v. Reginald D. Michael, Director, Montana Department of Corrections, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-timeliness section-2254 standard-of-review statute-of-limitations timeliness |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it determined that Steilman's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 petition is untimely? |
| 21-5973 |
Jesus Lopez-Mejia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Petitioner's sentence was substantively unreasonable? |
| 21-544 |
Joshua O. Thomas v. Farmers Insurance Exchange |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure genuine-issue-of-material-fact inference-standard judicial-precedent material-fact standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the district court and court of appeals have effectively abrogated this Court's binding precedent for reviewing a motion for summary judgment |
| 21-5954 |
David Lee Smith v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-proceedings takings |
Whether the Tenth Circuit grossly abused its inherent power by imposing the sanction of appeal dismissal against appellant Hook based on its false and… |
| 21-5942 |
Michael Woolen v. California |
California |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review appointment-of-counsel civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure dismissal due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion procedural-due-process sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the cumulative effect of deprivations of equal protection of laws, failure to appoint counsel, and procedural due process deficiency issues re… |
| 21-510 |
PDVSA US Litigation Trust v. Lukoil Pan Americas, LLC, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
and raised in the appellate briefing to such an e appellate-procedure appellate-review argument-abandonment civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court issue-preservation judicial-review legal-briefing merits-determination waiver |
Whether a court of appeals may deem an argument to have been abandoned when it was properly raised and fully briefed in the district court, and raised… |
| 21-5907 |
In Re Matthew James Leachman |
|
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights court-of-appeals discrimination due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-conduct judicial-ethics legal-review procedural-compliance |
Whether the Honorable Priscilla R. Owen, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, failed to comply with the mandatory … |
| 21-5915 |
Thomas D. Holmes v. Randy Gibbs, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute defendant-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure oral-verdict precedent sentencing |
Whether a Certificate of Appealability should have issued |
| 21-501 |
James Vincent Liott v. U.S. Bank National Association |
Pennsylvania |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure concise-statement concise-statements-of-errors due-process ejectment ejectment-action legal-errors preliminary-objections standing trial-court-procedure |
Did the trial court properly rule on Petitioner's Preliminary Objections to the Ejectment Action? |
| 21-5887 |
Miguel Neil v. Jay Forshey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review case-law constitutional-violation due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default |
Whether a lower federal court violates due process when it ignores a petitioner's appropriately cited case law in support that appellate counsel was i… |
| 21-491 |
William T. Schmitt, et al. v. Craig M. Stephens, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights co-defendant due-process final-judgment preclusion preclusive-effect res-judicata |
Whether the successful appeal of a final judgment by a 'closely interwoven' co-defendant equitably relieves a non-appealing defendant of the preclusiv… |
| 21-498 |
James Conerly, et al. v. John Patrick Winn, Judge, Superior Court of California, Sacramento County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review bias civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias recusal sealing-records standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Appellate Court erred in dismissing the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction |
| 21-486 |
Oklahoma v. Dakota James Alleyn Shriver |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-jurisdiction indian-law jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-jurisdiction native-american-law native-american-rights oklahoma-law oklahoma-sovereignty precedent-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020), should be overruled |
| 21-488 |
Oklahoma v. Dakota Shay Fox |
Oklahoma |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
140 S.Ct. 2452 (2020) should be overruled appellate-review criminal-jurisdiction criminal-law criminal-procedure federal-indian-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge mcgirt-precedent native-american-law oklahoma-sovereignty oklahoma-statehood stare-decisis tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty |
Whether McGirt v. Oklahoma should be overruled |
| 21-5844 |
James Malcolm Hale v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-disposition federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-discretion pretrial-motion pretrial-motions procedural-waiver waiver |
Whether a defendant may appeal an adverse pretrial motion determination despite not reserving the right in writing under Rule 11(a)(2) |
| 21-5836 |
Christopher Wilson v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights due-process expert-witness fraud |
Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court and the Mississippi Court of Appeals erred in denying Christopher Wilson's motion to vacate his conviction and s… |
| 21-5837 |
Carlos Amezcua v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-molestation corpus-delicti due-process insufficient-evidence jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia state-court-decision |
Can appellant be convicted of three charges of child molestation when the testimony received in trial was totally and materially different than the th… |
| 21-5796 |
Larry E. Clark v. Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, et al. |
Louisiana |
2021-09-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights condemnation due-process federal-courts federal-procedure jurisdiction standing state-courts state-law |
Whether 28 U.S.C. Section 1257(a) mandates this Court to consider the jurisdiction of this Court and the jurisdiction of the state appellate court, an… |
| 21-470 |
Eric Lee Brown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rule-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent legal-standard plain-error precedent standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
whether-error-can-be-plain |
| 21-472 |
Blanca Telephone Company v. Federal Communications Commission, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-forfeiture debt-collection due-process false-claims-act rulemaking universal-service-fund |
Whether FCC staff seizure of Universal Service Fund funding via civil forfeiture is 'pure debt collection' under the Debt Collection Improvement Act o… |
| 21-473 |
Daniel G. Szmania v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as Trustee for Bear Stearns Arm Trust 2007-3 |
Washington |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction personal-jurisdiction removal-to-federal-court res-judicata service-of-process |
Did the Supreme Court of Washington err in not enforcing the civil court case removal to federal court under 28 U.S.C. § 1446(d)? |
| 21-475 |
Deanna Brookhart, Warden v. Kenneth Smith |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review evidence-sufficiency evidence-weighing federal-habeas habeas-corpus habeas-relief jackson-v-virginia reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-court-deference |
Whether the Seventh Circuit violated 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)'s strictures in awarding habeas relief to respondent based on its own reweighing of the evide… |
| 21-5801 |
Carlos Benitez Penalosa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-sentencing miscarriage-of-justice plain-error plea-agreement sentencing-error |
Did the Ninth Circuit err when it failed to find that a sentencing error can amount to a 'miscarriage of justice' allowing appellate review even if th… |
| 21-458 |
L. Lee Whitnum v. Connecticut Office of the Chief State's Attorney, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process favorable-termination federal-jurisdiction legal-pleading procedural-error standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing |
| 21-5785 |
Gregory Albert Darst v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights coram-nobis due-process irs-records judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation record-falsification standing |
Does a pattern and practice exist whereby appellate courts refuse to adjudicate every issue presented by the Class of unrepresented litigants appealin… |
| 21-5761 |
Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Michael J. Buseman PC, et al. |
Oregon |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
adverse-parties appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal due-process jurisdiction pro-se-litigation service-of-process standing |
Was the Appellate Commissioner correct in determining that Petitioner needed to have served Respondents as 'adverse parties' to the appeal? |
| 21-5762 |
Hamid Michael Hejazi v. City of Eugene Police Department, et al. |
Oregon |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-dismissal legal-standing oregon-supreme-court service-of-process standing |
Was the Appellate Commissioner justified in dismissing the appeal on jurisdictional grounds |
| 21-5763 |
Hamid Michael Hejazi v. Downtown Eugene, Inc. |
Oregon |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure appellate-review board-of-immigration-appeals civil-procedure due-process immigration-law jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge service-of-notice service-of-process standing |
Was the Appellate Commissioner justified in dismissing Petitioner's appeal on jurisdictional grounds due to lack of service on adverse parties when Pe… |
| 21-5771 |
Sirshun Dontrell Burris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions |
Whether officers' search of a defendant's house without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 21-438 |
Olaf Sööt Design, LLC v. Daktronics, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
CVSGAmici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review claim-construction infringement jury-trial jury-verdict patent patent-law seventh-amendment sua-sponte |
Whether the Seventh Amendment allows the Federal Circuit to reverse a jury verdict based on a sua sponte new claim construction |
| 21-5729 |
Frank R. Stevenson v. New York |
New York |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-court-appeals writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether the New York Court of Appeals precedential case, on confrontation violation claims, is contrary to clearly established federal law |
| 21-5760 |
Anthony Auriemma v. Broomfield Municipal Court, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment illegal-searches illegal-trials inhumane-conditions judicial-misconduct retaliation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated thro… |
| 21-5715 |
Ronald George Whitehouse v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof co-defendant criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-quantity due-process fifth-circuit probation-officer reversible-error sentencing |
Whether the district court committed reversible error in holding the petitioner responsible for 10 kilos of methamphetamine based on the probation off… |
| 21-5738 |
Daniel Jose Gomez v. Robert Dooley, Warden, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jury-trial statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court denied his request for a jury trial in his criminal case |
| 21-5690 |
Pedro Zavala-Armendariz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(f) appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court judicial-discretion safety-valve sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Did the District Court err by not adequately explaining its ruling in applying or not applying the safety valve in connection with 18 U.S.C. §3553(f)? |
| 21-5702 |
Ronald Webster v. Scott Dauffenbach, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights district-court habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-ruling procedural-rulings |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in failing to issue a Certificate of Appealability |
| 21-5705 |
Lazaro Fernandez v. Jonathan W. Blodgett |
First Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process exculpatory-evidence forensic-analysis post-conviction-relief saliva |
Whether it was error for the Court of Appeals to uphold the District Court in denying to order testing of the biology found at the crime scene, the al… |
| 21-5709 |
Miguel Gonzalez v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error legal-precedent mccoy-v-louisiana retroactivity supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation |
Did the Supreme Court, Superior Court and trial Court commit reversible error in their holdings regarding the retroactivity and creation of a new cons… |
| 21-5692 |
Thomas George Craaybeek v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure legal-review loretto-v-teleprompter takings |
Whether the petitioner was denied due process under the Fourteenth Amendment and the protections of the Takings Clause, as established in Loretto v. T… |
| 21-5666 |
William Marcellus Campbell v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment abuse-of-discretion appellate-review confrontation-clause cooperating-witness criminal-procedure de-novo-review sentencing |
Whether a Defendant's 6th Amendment Confrontation Clause Rights are violated when a district court judge prohibits questions to a cooperating accompli… |
| 21-5688 |
Larry Donnell Dunlap v. Corizon Health, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure disputed-facts facts-unavailable judicial-interpretation legal-standard motion-procedure petitioner respondents summary-judgment |
Did the trial Court Judge abuse its discretion by granting the Respondents Summary Judgment, when facts were unavailable to Petitioner |
| 21-5664 |
Maurice L. Ross v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review attempted-robbery crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery qualifies as a crime of violence for purposes of 18 U.S.C. 924(c) |
| 21-389 |
Sergio Momox-Caselis, et al. v. Tara Donohue, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-procedure liberty-lobby ninth-circuit standard-of-review standards summary-judgment supervisory-power |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals departed from the accepted and usual course of the standards established by this Court in Anderson v. Liber… |
| 21-5642 |
Terry Dibble v. Deanna Brookhart, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burglary certificate-of-appealability district-court-conclusion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jury-instructions legal-standard reasonable-jurists residential-burglary |
Did Mr. Dibble present a ground for relief as to which reasonable jurists could differ concerning the correctness of the district court's conclusion, … |
| 21-5634 |
Michael D. Forbes v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-resentencing criminal-sentencing first-step-act guideline-range reasonableness-standard section-404 sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Should the reasonableness standard apply on appellate review of a ruling on a motion under Section 404 of the First Step Act? |
| 21-5635 |
Jamail D. Hairston v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error miranda-rights miscarriage-of-justice police-testimony right-to-remain-silent right-to-silence sufficiency-of-evidence |
Did the appeals court err in holding that no substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice resulted from officer Pagan's erroneous testimony about Hair… |
| 21-5564 |
Russell Jay Reger v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge legal-nullity personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment |
Is an uncontested void judgment still viewed by this court as being 'mere waste paper'? |
| 21-5557 |
Chasmind David Miller v. Government Employees Insurance Company, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights conflict-of-interest court-conflict due-process judicial-discretion procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment |
Did the appellate court issue a decision that directly conflicted with an earlier decision in a case with the same issues? |
| 21-5543 |
Louis Matthews v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-court-conflict conspiracy conspiracy-charge federal-law indictment judgment-acquittal ninth-circuit plain-error |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in upholding a conviction for a conspiracy other than the conspiracy charged in the indictment? |
| 21-5519 |
Steven P. BuBenchik, Jr. v. Douglas Fender, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance search-warrant standing warrantless-search |
Whether the Constitution or laws require a trial court to fabricate facts outside sworn testimony to justify a warrantless entry |
| 21-284 |
In Re Mathew Ryan Byrd |
|
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review covid-19 criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit incarceration mandamus medical-conditions medical-risk |
whether-the-fourth-circuit-abused-its-discretion-in-failing-to-render-a-timely-decision |
| 21-272 |
Ralph Abekassis v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-regulations judicial-review mootness second-amendment standing |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in dismissing this case as moot where New York City's actions were designed to evade appellate review |
| 21-5454 |
In Re Samuel L. Quinn |
|
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus innocence-claim judicial-discretion procedural-technicality statute-of-limitations |
Do the court of Appeals abuse its discretion by refusing to recall mandate for miscarriage of justice, not acknowledging the guiding general principle… |
| 21-5463 |
Christopher Jonell Tyler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process fourth-circuit government-breach judicial-review plain-error plea-agreement sentencing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit violated the 'interests of justice' and this Court's ruling in Puckett v. United States |
| 21-5418 |
Sergio Bucio v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion mitigating-role money-laundering role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 |
Whether the district court erred in calculating the amount of laundered funds attributable to Mr. Bucio |
| 21-5422 |
Jeffrey Alan Olson v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-selection due-process federal-courts federal-procedure judicial-independence judicial-selection standing |
Judicial-selection |
| 21-238 |
Keith Foster v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-precedent judicial-procedure legal-conflict prosecutorial-misconduct |
how-can-panels-of-ninth-circuit-court-of-appeals-affirm-decisions-as-matters-of-law-that-are-in-direct-conflict-with-previously-established-binding-pr… |
| 21-5410 |
Joydeth Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion district-court judicial-remand legal-procedure limited-remand plain-error substantial-rights |
Whether courts of appeals should order a limited remand to determine whether a plain error has affected a party's substantial rights |
| 21-5414 |
Johnny Tippins v. Anthony Immel, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process factual-dispute legal-standard motion-denial procedural-challenge standing statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for lack of standing and failure to state a claim |
| 21-5403 |
Charles Edwin Tumlinson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice pro-se-petition standing |
Should lower federal courts be allowed to violate Supreme Court case law and deny pro-se applicants relief for fundamental-miscarriage-of-justice clai… |
| 21-5404 |
Maria Teresa Duarte Godinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure disparities due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-waiver waiver |
whether the appellate court erred in enforcing the waiver keeping the defendant from appealing her sentence in violation of her due process rights |
| 21-5350 |
Bobby Earl Keys v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process prisoner-release sentencing sentencing-factors standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals apply the wrong appellate standard of review? |
| 21-5342 |
Jamerl M. Wortham v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review essential-element jury-instruction jury-instructions sixth-amendment unanimous-verdict waiver |
Whether a defendant waives appellate review of his Sixth Amendment right to a unanimous verdict when the government and defense counsel jointly submit… |
| 21-5324 |
Michael Dasean Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process harmless-error rule-32 sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
Whether an explanation inconsistent with Rule 32(i)(3)(B) can inoculate an otherwise unreasonable sentence from appellate review |
| 21-183 |
Gas Pipe, Inc., et al. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-to-defraud constitutional-error criminal-law defraud-clause government-function harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 371's defraud clause reaches any conspiracy whose object is to interfere with any lawful government function, even if not targeted… |
| 21-168 |
Dennis De Jesus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alternative-holding appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure dicta judicial-procedure jurisdiction jurisdictional-error merits merits-denial |
Whether a cursory statement that a court would deny relief on the merits if it had jurisdiction qualifies as an alternative holding or is merely dicta |
| 21-157 |
Anderson & Anderson LLP-Guangzhou, et al. v. North American Foreign Trading Corporation |
Second Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction foreign-trading motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred when it affirmed the United States District Court for the Southern District of… |
| 21-5281 |
Steven Burda v. Pennsylvania Department of Human Services |
Pennsylvania |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review jurisdiction legal-procedure lower-court standing supreme-court |
Did the Supreme Court err by not allowing exhibits to be included? |
| 21-114 |
John A. Clifford v. New York |
New York |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-civil-case jury-deliberation second-amendment standing witness-testimony |
Does the 2nd Amendment apply here? |
| 21-5227 |
Sergio Bahena v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment home-search investigative-alerts search-and-seizure |
Did the Appellate Court of Illinois violate Petitioners Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, by denying his petition due to the differentiation … |
| 21-5229 |
Jevante Marcus Richmond and Arthur Gene Evans, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit failed to apply substantive reasonableness review of the sentences imposed by the district court? |
| 21-5236 |
Manvester Evans, III v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
abandonment-of-counsel appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-trial due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance out-of-time-appeal right-to-appeal right-to-counsel trial-court-discretion |
Whether the defendant's due process right to appeal was violated when the state of Georgia denied his right to file an out-of-time appeal? |
| 21-5198 |
Dustin Trevino Lawrence v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-bias manifest-weight manifest-weight-of-evidence proportionate-sentencing reasonable-doubt sentencing |
Appellant's right to due process of law |
| 21-5219 |
Bryan James Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence federal-statute fifth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit wrongly affirmed Collins's conviction |
| 21-5190 |
Nicholas Stewart Hines v. Tim Reisch, Interim Secretary, South Dakota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order district-court-screening final-order judicial-review motion-for-reconsideration rule-59(e) rule-59e rule-60(b) standing |
whether-appellate-court-erred-in-dismissing-appeal-for-lack-of-jurisdiction |
| 21-5193 |
Vernon Collins v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law illegal-sentence open-court procedural-claims sentencing |
Did the New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division err in concluding consecutive sentences imposed outside petitioner's presence was not contrary to… |
| 21-5180 |
Eric Miguel Dowdy v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals supervisory-power |
Was petitioner denied his fundamental and constitutional right to due process |
| 21-89 |
Mati Leeal, et ux. v. Ditech Financial, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-claims Sixth-Circuit summary-judgment |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mich… |
| 21-75 |
Ojin Kim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deprivation-of-liberty due-process liberty-deprivation methodology-challenge restitution restitution-order sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence should be reviewable on appeal if the restitution order is not barred from appellate review due to factually insufficient evidence |
| 21-78 |
GLM DFW, Inc. v. Windstream Holdings, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-appeals creditor-priority critical-vendor-payments critical-vendors delegation-of-judicial-function equality equitable-mootness judicial-delegation transparency transparency-principle |
Whether the doctrine of equitable mootness is a valid doctrine |
| 21-81 |
Burt W. Newsome, et al. v. Clark A. Cooper, et al. |
Alabama |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-claims civil-liability civil-rights criminal-liability criminal-procedure due-process newton-v-rumery release-dismissal |
Whether a release-dismissal order entered in a criminal case is enforceable under the standards set forth in Newton v. Rumery |
| 21-5155 |
Michael Wayne Shellito v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-discretion postconviction-proceedings standard-of-review |
Whether the petitioner has demonstrated that jurists of reason could disagree with the federal courts' resolution of his constitutional claims or that… |
| 21-5157 |
Gary Simmonds v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Third Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law due-process judicial-power jurisdiction lesser-included-offense statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Is a lesser-included-offense of an unconstitutional-statute authorized by federal-statute |
| 21-5129 |
Gary E. Peel v. Barbara Zarrick |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review district-court due-process federal-criminal federal-criminal-procedure habeas-corpus non-capital standing writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a stand-alone (a/k/a free-standing) claim of 'actual innocence' is cognizable in a federal non-capital criminal case |
| 21-64 |
Danny James McLaughlin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bajakajian-factors criminal-fine criminal-fines eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-challenge excessive-fine judicial-review proportionality united-states-v-bajakajian |
Whether a reviewing court may consider factors beyond those identified in United States v. Bajakajian when determining if a criminal fine is dispropor… |
| 21-5110 |
Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C.-3553(a) advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasoned-decision sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should the sentencing judge be required to address relevant sentencing factors and provide a reasoned basis for discounting valid grounds for variance… |
| 21-5111 |
Joenell L. Rice v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit time-served |
Whether the district court and court of appeals erred in imposing a harsh sentence on the petitioner without proper grounds |
| 21-5102 |
Jaime Meza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation commerce-clause constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct judicial-review materiality suppressed-evidence |
Whether a defendant seeking relief under Brady v. Maryland is entitled to have some court review the suppressed information to determine materiality |
| 21-5109 |
Everett Jerome Tripodis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review bail-reform-act dangerousness due-process non-dangerous-offense pretrial-detention prolonged-detention statutory-interpretation |
whether-court-must-resolve-legal-questions |
| 21-52 |
Emmanuel Edokobi v. Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-disability standing subject-matter-jurisdiction summary-judgment |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals should have determined if the district court judge was judicially disabled |
| 21-43 |
Moe M. Al-Dolemy v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conviction conviction-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure legal-error michigan-court-of-appeals record-contradiction record-evidence |
Did the Michigan Court of Appeals commit reversible error through issuing a opinion affirming Petitioner's conviction where the opinion is contradicte… |
| 21-5085 |
David James Lola v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights competence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment judicial-system |
Does due process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require a presumption of competence for a criminal defendant to proceed pro se, such that a… |
| 21-5083 |
Corbin J. Breitenbach v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure discovery dna-testing due-process evidence habeas-corpus judicial-procedure |
Did the District Court abuse its discretion in denying Bieberlach's request for independent DNA testing? |
| 21-5054 |
Kevin Antonio Watson v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-sufficiency habeas-corpus ninth-circuit prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-doubt sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the Commonwealth of Vir… |
| 21-5019 |
Noe Perez v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-question fifth-circuit judicial-disagreement nevada-supreme-court ninth-circuit reasonable-jurists seventh-circuit |
Did the Ninth Circuit clearly err when it denied Mr. Perez's request for a COA even though three reasonable jurists on Nevada's highest court already … |
| 21-5014 |
John Bruce Fifield, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-history criminal-procedure judicial-notice plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a court of appeals may consider judicially noticeable facts presented for the first time on appeal in deciding whether an error is plain? |
| 21-5016 |
Salvador Acosta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-knowledge criminal-law drug-statutes evidence harmless-error mens-rea sentencing sentencing-enhancement testimony |
Whether a federal court of appeals can reject a defendant's testimony denying the requisite criminal knowledge as implausible in determining that a pr… |
| 21-5004 |
Bo Daniel Shafer v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel trial-procedure voir-dire witness-testimony |
Did the federal district court erroneously conclude that Bo Shafer's IAC claim regarding his trial counsel's performance during voir dire was without … |
| 21-5009 |
Eddie Tarver v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review authentication cell-phone-evidence civil-procedure evidence evidence-authentication harmless-error judicial-discretion photographic-evidence |
Whether the Court of Special Appeals abused its discretion by deciding that the Circuit Court's error, admitting in evidence certain pictures from a c… |
| 20-8451 |
J. P. v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2021-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure directed-verdict due-process motion-for-directed-verdict preservation-of-error procedural-due-process state-criminal-procedure trial-preservation |
Does the State of Arkansas's strict interpretation and enforcement of a procedural rule which requires criminal defendants to identify the specific fl… |
| 20-8453 |
Devonte Jaishun Tucker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigation preservation preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-discretion |
Whether a defendant must object to sentencing court's failure to consider a nonfrivolous mitigation argument in order to preserve the issue for appeal |
| 20-8439 |
Francisco Coto-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-review guideline-range judicial-discretion objection plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-arguments |
Whether a party may obtain appellate relief when the district court fails to address substantial arguments for a sentence outside the Guideline range,… |
| 20-8422 |
Wayne Porter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy-conviction criminal-enterprise criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' sanctioning of the district court's refusal to correct errors and conclusions of facts from the Fourth Ci… |
| 20-8424 |
James Erik Godiksen v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-discretion jury-instructions jury-note prejudice trial-procedure |
Did the Court of Appeals improperly conclude that the District Court's mishandling of a jury note and replaying only a portion of the defense expert's… |
| 20-1798 |
Sylvanus Rene v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-hearing findings-of-fact habeas-corpus procedural-due-process state-court-proceeding witness-credibility |
Does the appellate court's rejection without explanation of a trial court's favorable, dispositive findings of fact based on witness credibility deter… |
| 20-1790 |
Alston Campbell, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
accomplice-witness accomplice-witnesses appellate-review confrontation-clause cross-examination due-process sentencing-benefits standard-of-review |
Whether a trial court violates a defendant's rights under the Confrontation Clause by prohibiting cross-examination of accomplice witnesses about the … |
| 20-1792 |
Patricia Earnest, et al. v. Joann Ellison, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review due-process due-process-clause issue-preservation legal-basis procedural-fairness trial-court |
Does a court of appeals deny a party due process under the 14th Amendment when it decides the case on a basis never litigated or passed on as a matter… |
| 20-8396 |
Renee Denise Bell v. Florida Highway Patrol, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion right-to-petition standing statute-of-limitations |
Should a mandated order issued by a United States Appeals Court be struck down by a decision of a United States District Court, subjecting a plaintiff… |
| 20-8405 |
Robert Allen Vestal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-8388 |
Jonathan Aaron Leal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review due-process federal-sentencing illegal-sentence plea-agreement post-conviction-relief |
Should an appeal waiver provision in a plea agreement bar appellate or post-conviction relief from an illegal federal sentence? |
| 20-8365 |
Richard L. Gathercole v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-authority constitutional-law due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-jurisdiction legal-remedy standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit exceeded the scope of its analysis in rejecting the appellant's resistance claim |
| 20-1762 |
Ross R. Caliguri v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association |
New York |
2021-06-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment appellate-review conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-decision mortgage-foreclosure state-court |
Whether the Court of Appeals of the State of New York was in a 'conflict of interest' position when it issued its Memorandum Decision dated December 1… |
| 20-8328 |
Juan E. Seary-Colon v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge conviction-review criminal-procedure due-process insufficient-evidence legal-sufficiency procedural-review standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Stand |
| 20-8338 |
Mark Woods v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process final-judgment jurisdiction mandamus writ-of-procedencia |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Abused Its discretion in denying petitioner's Writ of Procedendo ad Judicium or Manda… |
| 20-8309 |
Robin Renee Melchior v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court habeas-corpus newly-presented-evidence rule-4 section-2254 slack-standard standard-of-review state-court-records |
Whether a United States District Court erred in failing to grant a certificate of appealability for a habeas corpus appeal |
| 20-8316 |
Michael Lawrence Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court first-step-act sentencing-reform substantive-reasonableness |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for relief from under Section 404 of the First Step Act is subject to substantive reasonableness review? |
| 20-8281 |
Dominic Franza v. James Stinson, Superintendent, Great Meadow Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure discretion judicial-procedure legal-precedent mandate-recall recall-of-mandate second-circuit |
Was it an abuse of discretion for the Second Circuit to deny Petitioner's Recall of the Mandate motion |
| 20-8284 |
Harold Gashe v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-court-split appellate-review criminal-justice due-process equal-protection extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion section-3582 sentencing sentencing-disparity statutory-interpretation |
Is the application of 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i) for relief from 924(c) stacking sentences being applied inconsistently across appellate courts? |
| 20-8304 |
Lee Goston v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appealability appellate-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-incompetency statutory-interpretation time-bar |
Question not identified |
| 20-1709 |
David Ming Pon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-10 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence-standard government-case harmless-error judicial-review presumption-of-innocence standard-of-review |
Whether an appellate court reviewing a cold criminal trial record may determine that an error at trial was harmless by applying an 'overwhelming evide… |
| 20-8264 |
Jeremy Hough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-procedure procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether, through 'assumed error harmlessness review,' appellate courts may affirm a criminal sentence without addressing allegations of significant pr… |
| 20-8243 |
Spencer Richard Andrews v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review consent consent-scope digital-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel privacy-rights search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-search |
Did the Michigan court of appeals erroneously expand the defendant's consent to retrieve a telephone number from his smartphone into a consent to sear… |
| 20-8244 |
Abdul S. Aziz v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights covid-19-impact due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel perjured-testimony plea-negotiations police-misconduct pro-se-brief |
Question not identified |
| 20-8231 |
Kevin Thomas Seigler v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-law drug-distribution due-process federal-courts single-transaction |
Is evidence of a single sale of illegal drugs, from one seller to one buyer, sufficient to support a conviction for conspiracy to distribute illegal d… |
| 20-8215 |
Aaron Walton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense criminal-law eighth-circuit guidelines inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals incorrectly found that an inchoate offense such as an attempt is included in the definition of a 'controll… |
| 20-8202 |
Otis Hill v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence criminal-law eighth-circuit inchoate-offenses sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.2 |
Whether inchoate offenses are included in the definition of a 'crime of violence' or 'controlled substance offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2 |
| 20-8204 |
Severiano Martinez-Rojas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-bargaining restitution restitution-calculation sentencing sentencing-procedure vulnerable-victim-enhancement |
whether-the-second-circuit-failed-to-follow-supreme-court-precedent |
| 20-1677 |
Angel Lee Rankin v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
|
5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidence-suppression miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress sudden-passion |
Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the Trial Court's Denial of Ms. Rankin's Motion to Suppress Because She was in Law Enforcement's Custo… |
| 20-1644 |
Devon Archer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-weighing federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure jury-discretion jury-verdict miscarriage-of-justice new-trial new-trial-motion second-circuit |
Does Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33(a) afford district courts discretion to reweigh the evidence when evaluating a new trial motion |
| 20-1651 |
Michael J. DeMartini, et ux. v. Timothy P. DeMartini, et ux. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure joinder remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether an antecedent court order amending a complaint to join a defendant is separable from a § 1447(e) remand order and thus not barred from review … |
| 20-8144 |
Tamara Rouhi v. Kettler, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit injustice judicial-procedure motion-to-dismiss standing |
There has been no redress of my grievance |
| 20-8103 |
Sayda Powery Orellana and Manuel Porras Salas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure forfeiture jury-instructions plain-error procedural-default waiver |
Whether agreement to a set of joint jury instructions is a waiver or forfeiture |
| 20-8136 |
Ebone Jazmine McAfee, aka Jazzy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review circuit-split sentencing supervised-release supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of this Court on an important matter, an… |
| 20-8098 |
Mohammad Sohail Saleem v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bias civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bias partiality petition-for-rehearing prejudice |
Did the United States Court of Appeals, for the Third District err in denying Mr. Saleem's Petition for Re-Hearing |
| 20-8105 |
Daniel Littlepage v. First District Court of Appeals of Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process judicial-bias new-trial structural-error trial-procedure |
Is a Petitioner Entitled to a New Trial when the 'Bias' and 'Partial' behavior of a Trial Judge exceeds the Requirement to prove 'Structural' Error? |
| 20-8097 |
Brandon Marquis Jennings, aka Mustafa Beezy Bey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction professional-misconduct |
Does the defendant have the right to effective assistance of counsel |
| 20-8087 |
William Edward Erickson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review coercion conditional-plea constitutional-claims criminal-procedure evidence extraneous-statements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-plea pretrial-motions sixth-amendment |
Whether the petitioner is entitled to constitutional review and relief on his claims at the appeal level regarding his ineffective assistance of couns… |
| 20-1621 |
Antonia Lerner v. Citigroup |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-review legal-standard non-movant nonmovant opposition procedural-default standard-of-review waiver |
Whether the proper standard of review and correct legal standard are waived from appellate review merely because the nonmovant did not file an opposit… |
| 20-8060 |
Julia Ann Poff v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus standing trial-errors |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's habeas corpus petition on the ground that he failed to exhaust state court remedies, in vi… |
| 20-8074 |
Anibal Lucas Garcia v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-felony appellate-review categorical-approach duenas-alvarez formal-law generic-crime immigration-law overbreadth-doctrine state-law statutory-interpretation |
Whether under Duenas-Alvarez and Virginia state decisions, Va. Code § 18.2-168, forgery of public records, is an aggravated felony as a crime relating… |
| 20-8075 |
Damantae Graham v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure harmless-error trial-procedure victim-impact victim-impact-testimony |
Is a new trial required when an appellate court assumes a trial court's admission of irrelevant victim impact testimony was error? |
| 20-8052 |
Vicente Quiroz v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus systemic-breakdown |
Whether the denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) by the district court, without any meaningful review by the court of appeals, violates due … |
| 20-1608 |
North Carolina v. Norfolk Junior Best |
North Carolina |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
|
alternate-suspects appellate-review bloody-fingerprint brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process materiality materiality-analysis post-conviction post-conviction-review |
Does an appellate court violate the core principles of Brady in post-conviction review |
| 20-8025 |
Thomas L. Fast v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review cold-war cold-war-claims conflict-of-holdings due-process extraordinary-miscarriage-of-justice federal-officer procedural-default structural-due-process structural-rights |
Was the appellate court's orders supporting the lower court's decision's conflict with Supreme Court and appellate court's holdings violate the Petiti… |
| 20-1579 |
Vivian Epps v. CVS Health Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process electronic-record-freedom-of-information-act federal-procedure federal-rule-60 judicial-misconduct natural-justice ninth-circuit standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit 3-panel Judges had infringed the rule of natural justice |
| 20-1568 |
Teresa Miller v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review |
Whether the court's decision to order the defendant to a death sentence was necessary to prevent review of their conduct or actions, and whether a tra… |
| 20-8002 |
Jason Andrew Cavazos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing plain-error relevant-conduct sex-offense u.s.s.g.-§2g1.3(b)(4) |
Whether the court of appeals failed to properly apply the plain error analysis to the question of whether the sentencing court erred by including a tw… |
| 20-8009 |
David Calhoun v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim discovery due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition judicial-review public-record public-records state-supreme-court |
Whether the district court was correct in denying petitioner's motion to compel production of documents and whether the court of appeals denied petiti… |
| 20-7973 |
Zavion Nunley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split data-availability judicial-discretion nationwide-statistics reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statistical-analysis unwarranted-disparities |
Whether statistics demonstrating that judges in the sentencing district impose sentences much more frequently than their peers in other district are r… |
| 20-7985 |
Taji Jemal Lee v. Bernadette Mason, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Mahanoy, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the petitioner's 6th and 14th Amendment rights to due process were violated by the prosecution's knowing concealment of material exculpatory e… |
| 20-1560 |
Lowndes County Health Services, LLC v. Gregory Copeland, et al. |
Georgia |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review batson-challenge civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection juror-discrimination jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strike race-neutrality racial-discrimination |
Whether striking a juror based on allegations of racial prejudice is a facially race-neutral explanation under Batson |
| 20-7970 |
Christopher R. Glenn v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review counsel-misconduct due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud ineffective-assistance judicial-proceedings supervisory-power |
Did the Eleventh Circuit so far depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of this Court's superviso… |
| 20-7946 |
Lisa Biron v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-appellate-jurisdiction habeas-corpus post-conviction-proceeding statutory-interpretation time-bar time-limits |
Whether the First Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding as untimely under 28 U.S.C. § 2107 and Federal Rule of Appe… |
| 20-7936 |
Jose Oribel Ponce-Ulloa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines temporal-connection ussg-2d1.1 weapon-possession |
Whether a sentencing court can add two offense levels for possession of a weapon under USSG § 2D1.1(b)(1) when the gun is not used nor present in the … |
| 20-7912 |
Jorge Gomez-Gomez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that Petitioner's 99-month sentence was substantively reasonable |
| 20-1522 |
United States v. Malik Nasir |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-possession plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals may, on plain-error review, affirm a conviction following a trial for possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U… |
| 20-1519 |
Ismael Rivera v. Glennis Gelabert-De-Peguero, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Dismissed |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-doctrine police-conduct police-officer qualified-immunity standing |
Whether Police Officer Ismael Rivera was correctly denied his entitlement to qualified-immunity |
| 20-7882 |
Taurean Potter v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fair-trial false-testimony fourteenth-amendment government-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment right to a fair trial and due process was violated when the government failed to correct false testimony… |
| 20-7870 |
Scott Raymond Tignor v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process elements-of-offense guilty-plea plea-voluntariness rehaif-v-united-states standard-of-review united-states-v-gary |
When a defendant argues for the first time on appeal that his guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary because he was not informed of the elements of… |
| 20-7856 |
Dennis Ayala v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals district-court drug-quantity harmless-error judicial-discretion molina-martinez preponderance-standard sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding harmless error |
| 20-1498 |
Kory Alexander v. Alex Jones, Acting Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alleyne-precedent appellate-review criminal-elements criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process firearm-discharge first-degree-murder jury-instructions lesser-included-offense sentencing sentencing-factor |
Whether the Illinois Appellate Court unreasonably applied Alleyne v. United States |
| 20-7823 |
Alan Trowbridge v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review counsel-deficiency criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decide an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with this Court's holding in Strickland v. … |
| 20-7831 |
Lena Lasher v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights controlled-substances-act defective-indictment drug-definition ex-post-facto food-drug-cosmetics-act indictment-defect lack-of-physical-evidence |
Did the Appellate Court deny the Plaintiff her constitutional rights by denying her Appeal 18-2693 (L) without addressing the District Court's violati… |
| 20-7797 |
Jorge Luis Rosa-Hernandez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-decision due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-guidelines third-circuit unrelated-misconduct |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Decision in allowing the Government to use unrelated, uncharged mis… |
| 20-7800 |
Jacqueline Moore v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness-standard federal-criminal-law indictment mens-rea plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states supreme-court-decision trial-record |
Whether an appellate court may consider information outside the trial record to determine if a Rehaif error affected the fairness, integrity, or publi… |
| 20-7774 |
Kevin Johnson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure double-standard due-process evidentiary-standard expert-testimony forensic-evidence ineffective-assistance post-conviction |
Whether the court of appeal erred in allowing the use of statements of unaddressed witnesses as basis for expert opinions and presenting their finding… |
| 20-1460 |
Rolando Cruz, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-16 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
appellate-review conspiracy criminal-procedure evidence evidence-standard indictment indictment-variance rico-conspiracy third-circuit united-states-v-rowe |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in affirming RICO conspiracy convictions based on evidence of a different conspiracy than was charged |
| 20-7784 |
Bryan Keith Goins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process filing-deadline ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation legal-timeliness procedural-requirements sentencing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the petitioner's sentence was unconstitutional |
| 20-7732 |
Tina LaSonya Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review capital-sentencing constitutional-procedure death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto jury-finding jury-findings sixth-amendment |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's procedure for imposing a death sentence violates the Sixth, Eighth, or Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-7734 |
Imeh U. Affiah v. Texas Southmost College, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process fabricated-evidence judicial-review legal-review procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment |
Whether the lower courts erred in relying solely on a summary judgment report without addressing all documents and concerns raised by the plaintiff |
| 20-7707 |
Charles Michael Ledford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by dismissing Mr. Ledford's meritorious arguments due to the appellate waiver language of the plea a… |
| 20-7703 |
Gary Lamont Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-amendment fourth-circuit individualized-assessment judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States |
| 20-7708 |
Jose Noe Castro Orellana v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process fact-finding plain-error-review procedural-error sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied Rita v. United States and Gall v. United States by elevating the presumption of reasonableness over a reliance on… |
| 20-7673 |
Atticus Sliter-Matias v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fifth-amendment plain-error self-incrimination |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's judgment of conviction and sentence by failing to find that the dis… |
| 20-7686 |
Lonnie Alonzo Howard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act circuit-court criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency felon-in-possession plain-error sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record |
Whether this case should be held pending Greer v. United States |
| 20-7661 |
Rodney Russell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process ex-parte-communication juror-bias juror-dishonesty jury-selection motive structural-error |
Whether the district court violated due process by appointing the Federal Defender to represent a juror and inform the juror of the legitimacy of the … |
| 20-7652 |
Lawrence L. Colton v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus interests-of-justice procedural-validity sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining the appropriateness of a habeas corpus petition |
| 20-7626 |
Robert Frank Miller v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standards criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion probable-cause waiver |
Whether certiorari should be granted to clarify that probable cause must be based on actual facts, rather than mere assumptions interposed by the cour… |
| 20-7604 |
Christopher Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea indictment mens-rea plain-error rehaif |
Whether the appellate court may assume the indictment alleges a federal offense and consider material outside the trial record to adjudicate the defen… |
| 20-1369 |
Mohammed Jabateh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure federal-criminal-rule federal-criminal-rule-52(b) plain-error plain-error-rule sentencing statutory-construction |
Does the plain error rule permit affirmance of a federal criminal conviction and sentence based on conduct that concededly does not violate the charge… |
| 20-7596 |
Olen Ware, II v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure federal-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance motion-to-amend motion-to-suppress |
Did the federal district court err in dismissing the habeas petition without considering the petitioner's motion to amend |
| 20-7599 |
Kevin L. Tucker v. Denis R. McDonough, Secretary of Veterans Affairs |
Third Circuit |
2021-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-conflict legal-interpretation veterans-claims |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has entered a decision in conflict with the United States Court of Appeals for Vetera… |
| 20-7572 |
Jim Bass Holden v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split conflict-of-laws constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion procedural-default right-to-counsel |
Whether the use of a Brecon ment / wmnte wukecwautt Seven s\\k ¢ QQ violates the Sixth Amendment right to counsel |
| 20-7580 |
Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing individualized-circumstances judicial-discretion plain-error reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether formal objection to sentencing is necessary to invoke plain error review of the reasonableness of a sentence |
| 20-7556 |
Terrence A. McKnight v. R. Johnson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus harmless-error hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct standards-of-review |
Did the California Court of Appeal unreasonably determine that the established prosecutorial misconduct was harmless? |
| 20-7558 |
Kesha S. Packer v. Wisconsin Department of Corrections |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court excusable-neglect jurisdiction notice-of-appeal procedural-default standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals has jurisdiction to hear the plaintiff's appeal? |
| 20-1345 |
Keith Arnold v. City of Auburn, Washington |
Washington |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-authority abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion municipal-harassment parking-regulation parking-ticket |
Has the City of Auburn committed harassment under the cover of abuse of a position of authority against petitioner by giving petitioner a parking tick… |
| 20-7531 |
Baidehi L. Mukherjee v. The Childrens Mercy Hospital |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
after-acquired-evidence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection hearsay-evidence jury-instructions standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Should the violation of Standard of Review for Summary Judgment be allowed to stand uncorrected? |
| 20-7528 |
Jonathan Figueroa-Serrano v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review conditional-plea criminal-procedure federal-courts federal-rules harmless-error plea-bargaining sentencing |
In conditional plea appeals, is an error harmless when (1) the error did not affect the defendant's choice to plead guilty; or (2) the error did not a… |
| 20-7502 |
Vaughn Alexander Cropper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction firearms-regulation Second-Amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in upholding petitioner's conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) despite his as-applied Second Amendment challenge |
| 20-7511 |
Carlos A. Espinoza v. W. L. Montgomery, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa appellate-review circuit-court concession habeas-corpus mattox-remmer-presumption non-jurisdictional-ground state-concession state-court summary-disposition |
May a circuit court affirm the denial of a habeas corpus petition on a non-jurisdictional ground not raised in either the state court or district cour… |
| 20-7486 |
Carlos Guzman-Merced v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2106 appellate-remedy appellate-review criminal-procedure indictment indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review remedial-authority statutory-interpretation |
Whether a Court of Appeals can order an indictment dismissed as part of the appellate remedy |
| 20-7489 |
Michael Formica v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-standards standing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit decision was debatable not to review the merits of the claims |
| 20-7492 |
Justice Towan Roundtree v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-sentence appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a Guidelines error is harmless when the district judge issues an alternative sentence |
| 20-7449 |
Michael Nunez, aka Gordo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
3553(a) 3553a-factors appellate-review appellate-waiver constitutional-review due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-bias |
Whether a sentence imposed by an apparently biased judge, based on material falsehood, disregard of the 3553(a) factors, legally unfounded fixed polic… |
| 20-7457 |
Mark Andrew Morris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard merits-review standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent threshold-inquiry |
Did the United States Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, use an improper and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standard which conflicts… |
| 20-7442 |
Ahmad Shalash v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard legal-precedent prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct recantation standing undue-burden |
Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit imposed an improper burden and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) stand… |
| 20-7408 |
Trystan Keun Napper v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-interpretation plain-error standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) permits courts of appeals to grant appellate relief in the absence of error shown by binding preceden… |
| 20-7409 |
Eduardo Pena-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-7425 |
Cornelius Kenyatta Craig v. Andre Matevousian, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-circuit |
Whether the 'same evidence' standard for double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment is unconstitutional as applied to the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Pr… |
| 20-1256 |
Malcolm A. French v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure impartial-jury juror-bias juror-mendacity mcdonongh-test right-to-jury standard-of-review structural-error |
When a criminal defendant claims the structural error of deprivation of the right to trial by an impartial jury, is that claim appropriately reviewed … |
| 20-1246 |
Anna Valentine, Warden v. Johnny Phillips |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility-determination district-court expert-witness federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus standard-of-review |
Did the Sixth Circuit violate Fed. Rule Civ. P. 52(a)(6) when it failed to apply the proper, heightened and deferential standard to the district court… |
| 20-7372 |
Terry Lee Ockert, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion |
Whether the court of appeals should review an untimely suppression argument for plain error under Rule 52 or require a showing of good cause |
| 20-7335 |
Raymond E. Carr v. Ed Gonzalez, Sheriff, Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process free-speech government-action habeas-corpus retaliation standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the Texas state government retaliated against him for exercising his First Amendment… |
| 20-7345 |
Willie Ray Lewis v. Robert Legrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abortion appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review due-process equal-protection judicial-procedure legal-standing medical-regulations standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether Louisiana's law requiring a physician performing an abortion to have admitting privileges at a local hospital is unconstitutional |
| 20-7277 |
Niles O'Neil v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substance-offense inchoate-offense inchoate-offenses judicial-deference kisor-v-wilkie sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the U.S. Sentencing Commission acted within its authority by its commentary to § U.S. Sentencing Gu… |
| 20-7316 |
Jose Luis Morales v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review district-court-discretion effective-counsel first-appeal post-conviction post-judgment-appeal sixth-amendment state-statutory-right statutory-right |
Does the Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel on appeal apply to a case when the appeal takes place years after conviction and the defendant had… |
| 20-7318 |
Alex Warren Klinger v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-liability double-jeopardy due-process jackson-standard search-warrant self-defense treaties |
whether-state-disproved-self-defense-beyond-reasonable-doubt |
| 20-7320 |
Zbigniew Laskowski v. Washington State Department of Labor and Industries |
Washington |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights de-novo-review due-process evidence judicial-findings prosecutorial-discretion standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the appellate court must apply de novo review where the trial judge failed to make specific findings on the prosecution's justifications for o… |
| 20-1216 |
Faysal Khalaf v. Ford Motor Company, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-standard jackson-v-virginia jury-findings seventh-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether the standard under the Sixth Amendment, as established by the Court in Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 (1979), should apply in civil cases u… |
| 20-7298 |
Andrew Watson Bunn v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review capital-case civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction petition-for-review right-to-appeal standing |
Whether a right to appeal is preserved when the questions presented remain unanswered |
| 20-7250 |
Eunice Husband v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias plain-error supervised-release united-states-constitution |
Whether the district court and appellate court erred in their handling of the defendant's claims of plain error, judicial bias, ineffective assistance… |
| 20-7262 |
Melvin Stills v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conflicting-opinions court-opinion due-process judicial-integrity legal-procedure merits-review record-completeness waiver |
Did the Pennsylvania Superior Court violate the due process rights of the Petitioner when it issued two opinions that conflicted on whether the record… |
| 20-7274 |
Michael Diabolis Griffis, Sr. v. Les Parish, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process faretta-standard federal-courts pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflicts with clearly established law in Fareita v. California and conflicts with the decisions o… |
| 20-7244 |
Melvin Landry, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-1951 18-usc-924 appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-law hobbs-act sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Hobbs Act robbery as defined by Title 18 U.S.C. §1951(b)(1) is a 'crime of violence' within the meaning of Title 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(8)(a) |
| 20-7247 |
Walter Eugene Powell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by the warrantless search and seizure of his hotel room |
| 20-7256 |
James Timothy Cobb v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellant's pretrial motion to… |
| 20-7194 |
Lamar Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error-review rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights supreme-court-decision trial-record |
Whether when applying plain-error review based upon an intervening United States Supreme Court decision, a circuit court of appeals may review matters… |
| 20-7195 |
Javan Fredrick Mays, aka Von Frederick Mayes v. Scott Lewis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-relief procedural-barriers prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel subject-matter-jurisdiction suppressed-evidence |
Whether the petitioner's convictions were obtained in violation of due process |
| 20-1161 |
Edward J. Kosinski v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review confidentiality-agreement constitutional-vagueness criminal-fraud fiduciary-duty harmless-error insider-trading trust-and-confidence vagueness |
Whether a simple agreement to keep information confidential can establish criminal insider-trading-fraud |
| 20-7199 |
Maurice Duncan Burks v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure motion-for-new-trial new-trial standard-of-review trial-court-discretion witness-credibility |
Whether Using a Different, More Stringent, Standard of Review When a Trial Court Grants a Motion for New Trial than Utilized When a Trial Court Denies… |
| 20-7168 |
Loren Joel McReynolds v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review base-offense-level criminal-procedure firearms-offense reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review ussg-2k2.1 |
Whether the court's calculation of McReynolds' base offense level was erroneous? |
| 20-7180 |
William Hugh Wilson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial sixth-circuit wilson-case |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying Wilson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability and Granting Relief |
| 20-7186 |
Brian Dale Lee v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5k2.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fourth Circuit court erred in finding that the district court's consideration of conduct raised in a 5k2.1 motion was appropriate? |
| 20-1134 |
John Myers v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-defense ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis standard-of-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred by holding, in conflict with at least four other courts of appeals, that to establish prejudice under Strickland v. … |
| 20-1130 |
Ericsson Inc., et al. v. TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-02-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
appellate-review civil-procedure discretion federal-civil-procedure judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law legal-issues preservation-of-issues summary-judgment |
Whether there is an exception to the rule that a pretrial denial of summary judgment is not reviewable on appeal |
| 20-7158 |
Raymond J. Ramirez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review certificate-of-appeal criminal-procedure due-process florida-rules habeas-corpus judicial-discretion jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge standing |
Whether a certificate of appealability should have been granted |
| 20-7159 |
Danny L. Smith v. Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights congressional-intent court-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus legal-conflict standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court's decision bars petitioner's claims of statutory rights under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 |
| 20-7137 |
Jerald Dean Godwin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review bank-robbery crime-of-violence crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus meaningful-review section-2255 |
Does the Eleventh Circuit's practice of applying published panel orders as binding precedent deprive inmates of due process? |
| 20-7145 |
Rasheik Amond Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearm-offense jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error |
Whether a defendant who was found guilty after a jury trial to possessing a firearm as a felon, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922(g), is automatically ent… |
| 20-7100 |
Ryan Detrell Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure district-court-judgment due-process equal-protection sentencing sentencing-variance |
Whether the Circuit Court Erred Failing To Reverse District Court's Imposition of an 'Alternate Variance Sentence' Which Was Designed To Insulate The … |
| 20-7101 |
Anthony Jerome Billings, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split controlled-substance-offense crime-of-violence Eleventh-Circuit florida-statute mens-rea sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Is a conviction for sale of cocaine a 'controlled-substance-offense' under U.S.S.G. § 4B1.2(b) without proof of defendant's knowledge of the illicit n… |
| 20-7106 |
Mark Halper v. Linda Moore, et al. |
Colorado |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights colorado-courts due-process judicial-corruption legal-standing real-party-interest real-party-of-interest standing |
Whether the Colorado Supreme Court, the Colorado Court of Appeals, and the District Court, San Miguel County, CO were corrupt in failing to legally as… |
| 20-1096 |
Philip Jay Fetner v. Hotel Street Capital, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-jurisdiction chapter-11-bankruptcy civil-rights constitutional-appeal constitutional-rights due-process final-order mootness |
Whether the appellate courts erred in denying a constitutional appeal on the false premise of lack of jurisdiction |
| 20-7070 |
Jeremy S. v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-inquiry jury-polling jury-trial trial-court-procedure verdict-review |
Does the new syllabus point issued by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia permitting a trial court judge to make further inquiry of a juror … |
| 20-7052 |
Joshua Wright v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion mitigating-factors procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the 151-month sentence is procedurally and substantively reasonable |
| 20-7037 |
Elias Junior Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5K1.1-motion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance government-motion judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines U.S.S.G.-5K1.1 |
Does a court violate Gall v. United States by failing to adequately explain the basis for a below-guidelines sentence? |
| 20-7045 |
In Re Cyrus Linton Brooks |
|
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appearance-of-justice appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-review procedural-fairness |
Did the review treatment accorded the request for the issuance of a certificate of appealability by a circuit judge fail to satisfy the appearance of … |
| 20-7048 |
Roman Gabriel Gonzales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process plea-bargain sentencing supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of this Court on an important matter, an… |
| 20-7018 |
Lawrence Westbrook, III v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion enhancement firearm-enhancement firearms sentencing-guidelines united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred by applying a six-level enhancement pursuant to USSG § 2K2.1(b)(1)(C) |
| 20-7019 |
Kourtney Williams v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process grand-jury jury-finding mens-rea petit-jury plain-error |
Does Fed. R. Crim. P. 52(b) grant an appellate court discretion to independently find an essential element of an offense for which the defendant was n… |
| 20-1047 |
Alabama, et al. v. Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-02-02 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-rights interlocutory-appeal mootness sovereign-immunity vacatur voting-rights-act |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's unreviewed and unreviewable decision should be vacated |
| 20-6991 |
Edwin Jurado-Nazario v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process first-circuit judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing |
Whether the sentence imposed is unreasonable |
| 20-6995 |
Floyd Clark v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process final-judgment johnson-precedent motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence recanting-affidavit residual-clause |
Whether there was a sufficient final determination by the trial court such that the Circuit Court could have reached a determination of the substantiv… |
| 20-7005 |
Andre King v. Brian Kendall, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss procedural-discretion standing summary-dismissal |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred as a matter of law in allowing the district court to summarily dismiss the petitioner's motion to reopen the case p… |
| 20-6966 |
Charles Eloys Johnson, aka Adam White v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c appellate-review conspiracy crime-of-violence criminal-procedure hobbs-act hobbs-act-robbery jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error substantial-rights |
Whether an acknowledged instructional error requires reversal where a reviewing court cannot determine if the jury based its verdict on the legally er… |
| 20-6988 |
Antwone Lamont Creater v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion mitigating-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the seriousness of the offense is the most important factor for a judge to consider in fashioning a defendant's sentence, or whether the serio… |
| 20-1020 |
Donald Chimaobi Okoro v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process fact-finding findings-of-fact judicial-review legal-contradiction procedural-error standard-of-review trial-court trial-court-findings |
Does an Appellate Court fail to provide meaningful appellate review when it adopts a Trial Court's findings of fact when those findings contradict the… |
| 20-1011 |
Cyrus Mark Sanai v. D. Joshua Staub, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-conflict conflict-of-interest due-process judicial-disclosure judicial-ethics judicial-recusal whistleblower-protection younger-abstention |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals err in refusing to require federal judges to disclose information relevant to disqualification? |
| 20-6920 |
Sean Moffitt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court-jurisdiction due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus jurisdiction legal-procedure post-conviction-relief subsequent-petition |
Does the district court have jurisdiction to entertain a lawfully filed, Subsequent Petition |
| 20-6921 |
Elier Isai Marquez-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli… |
| 20-6933 |
Seledonio Martinez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-standard totality-of-the-circumstances |
Whether the 46-month sentence is reasonable given the totality of the circumstances |
| 20-6946 |
Barry Cashin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process procedural-reasonableness sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Does 18 U.S.C. § 3742(a) restrict appellate courts' authority to review the procedural and substantive reasonableness of a denial of a motion for a se… |
| 20-992 |
John Vigna v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process fair-trial harmless-error |
Whether the denial of an accused request to introduce credible and relevant evidence that directly rebuts and contradicts the prior bad acts evidence … |
| 20-969 |
Freedom Watch, Inc., et al. v. Google Inc., et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6) |
1st-amendment antitrust appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech human-rights-act political-discrimination sherman-act standing |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit err by failing to find that the District of Columbia Human Rights Act's prohibition on political di… |
| 20-6827 |
Abdul Majid v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review deference-to-lower-court fourth-amendment marijuana-legalization motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Court of Appeals can override the District Court's factual findings and expand the scope of a warrantless search |
| 20-6855 |
Stacia O'Neil v. Marisa Berquist, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review arbitration commercial-disputes due-process uniform-arbitration-act |
Whether the Supreme Court of the State of Massachusetts denied the Petitioner Due Process of Law under the 14th Amendment |
| 20-6893 |
Patrick Wallace v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-court habeas-corpus recusal right-to-be-present section-2255 |
Did the courts commit reversible error denying petitioner's COA, to resolve the factual disputes |
| 20-6894 |
Macho Joe Williams v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights conflict-of-interest constitutional-interpretation criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the trial court abused its discretion when it denied Appellant's motion to review a 2019 order |
| 20-6854 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing fact-question plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's claim for a minor or mitigating role downward adjustment under the Sentencing Guidelines… |
| 20-6861 |
Justin Lee Sanders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process eighth-circuit factual-disputes federal-jurisdiction federal-writ habeas-corpus reversible-error |
Whether the district court and court of appeals erred in denying a certificate of appealability to review the denial of the petitioner's federal habea… |
| 20-6862 |
Montecarlos Gant v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights |
Whether automatic reversal is required when a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made in violation of the Due Process Clause |
| 20-6864 |
Brian David Hill v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial preponderance-of-evidence reasonable-doubt sixth-amendment supervised-release trial-by-jury |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner without a jury trial and by a preponderance of the evidence |
| 20-944 |
Pamela D. Stark v. Joe Edward Stark |
Tennessee |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-safeguards contempt contempt-of-court legislative-safeguards mootness mootness-doctrine prior-restraint right-to-petition |
Whether a state trial court can create a hybrid form of contempt which avoids traditional constitutional and legislative safeguards and prevents appel… |
| 20-6842 |
Christine D'Onofrio v. Costco Wholesale Corporation |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure legal-sufficiency rule-50b-motion seventh-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the majority opinion in affirming the grant of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 50(b) motion failed to apply the correct standard of review, and under the co… |
| 20-6836 |
Julian P. Gutierrez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Effective-Assistance-of-Counsel |
| 20-925 |
Sebhat Afework v. Velanta Monique Babbitt, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-11 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1442 28-usc-1447(d) 28-usc-1448 appellate-review civil-rights-removal district-court-order federal-officer-removal remand-jurisdiction removal-statute |
Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou… |
| 20-922 |
Lisa Marie Montgomery v. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-01-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-regulations first-impression judicial-procedure legal-standard standing summary-reversal |
whether the director may designate a new execution date while a stay is in place |
| 20-917 |
800 Services, Inc. v. AT&T Corp. |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law appellate-review federal-communications-commission federal-courts fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court jurisdiction primary-jurisdiction tariff tariff-interpretation telecommunications |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Failing to Refer this Questions of Tariff Interpretation to the FCC Under the Doctrine of Primary … |
| 20-6789 |
Lilia Abril Olmedo-Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administration-of-justice appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-offense federal-law fifth-circuit minor-role sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit violated federal law when it conducted a cursory review of the facts related to a warranted two-level adjustment under U.S.S… |
| 20-6798 |
Henry Christopher Stubbs v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment AEDPA appellate-review civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
Whether, during review of the Petitioner's habeas corpus application in the United States District Court, the Petitioner was entitled to de novo revie… |
| 20-6781 |
Bernard Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession felon-status jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states sentencing substantial-rights |
Whether the courts of appeals may consider the entire record, including a presentence report, in determining if the defendant's substantial rights wer… |
| 20-894 |
Barbara Andersen v. Village of Glenview, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process motion-to-dismiss motion-to-strike standing summary-judgment trial-court |
Whether the trial court properly disregarded Andersen's Motion to Strike relative to the Motions to Dismiss filed by the Respondents |
| 20-900 |
Shell Oil Products Co., L.L.C., et al. v. Rhode Island |
First Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
GVR |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-review removal-statute statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) authorizes appellate review of any issue encompassed in a remand order |
| 20-6768 |
Quentin Watson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-evaluation petition-review standing |
Whether the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied clearly established law in evalu… |
| 20-884 |
Chevron Corporation, et al. v. San Mateo County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
28-usc-1442 28-usc-1447d appellate-review civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdictional-issue remand-order statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1447(d) authorizes appellate review of any issue encompassed in a remand order when removal was premised in part on the federal-of… |
| 20-6737 |
Christian Alejandro Perez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process knowingly-and-voluntarily plea-bargain right-of-appeal waiver-of-appeal |
Was a dismissal of the appeal improper considering the court of appeals' reliance on a waiver of appeal pursuant to a plea bargain in which Mr. Perez … |
| 20-871 |
In Re Bryant Moore |
|
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1651 appellate-review default-judgment extraordinary-writ fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court hazel-atlas-glass-co-v-hartford-empire-co judicial-discretion statutory-interpretation summary-judgment |
Whether this Court should use its discretion through 28 U.S.C. §1651(a) and governing law of Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 23… |
| 20-875 |
Sok Kong, Trustee for Next of Kin of Map Kong, Decedent v. City of Burnsville, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split district-court genuine-issue-of-material-fact interlocutory-appeal material-fact qualified-immunity standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether, on interlocutory review of a denial of qualified-immunity, an appellate court may reject a district court's determination of a genuine-issue-… |
| 20-6721 |
Monwell Dwight Booth v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court fourth-amendment legal-standard search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were not violated? |
| 20-6732 |
Adams Joel Forty-Febres v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence-insufficiency first-circuit judicial-review standard-of-review statutory-interpretation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Evidence was Totally Insufficient for the Conviction to Fairly Stand |
| 20-6714 |
Jevonne Martell Coleman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error due-process guilty-plea plain-error prejudice reversal substantial-rights |
When a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made, is automatic reversal required? |
| 20-6698 |
Richard H. Morrison v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-burden habeas-corpus legal-burden procedural-standard state-courts state-jurisdiction |
Do the state have the burden, and then that burden shift back to the defendant to challenge? |
| 20-6702 |
Tomas Moreno-Turrubiates v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review mitigation-arguments plain-error-review procedural-reasonableness procedural-unreasonableness sentence-explanation sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
whether-district-court-must-address-mitigation-arguments |
| 20-6647 |
Douglas Charles Knicely v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellants' pretrial motion to… |
| 20-817 |
Louis Roderick Ogden v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standing third-circuit |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the Petitioner's Certificate of Appealability? |
| 20-814 |
James Nalder, et al. v. United Automobile Insurance Company |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure damages-review diversity federal-courts judicial-procedure jury-trial standing standing-doctrine substantive-law |
Whether a federal appeals court may be divested of jurisdiction by evaluating facts of an alleged post-judgment reduction in the amount of damages and… |
| 20-6621 |
Shauna Smith v. Brooks Benton, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review cell-phone-records criminal-procedure evidence-suppression habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel phone-records trial-procedure |
Did the Eleventh Circuit err in deferring to the Superior Court's finding that Ms. Smith was not prejudiced by her appellate counsel's failure to rais… |
| 20-800 |
Tracy Alan Barnett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court district-court-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-order habeas-corpus |
Are United States District Courts required to address and resolve all constitutional claims or issues raised in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 Motion to satisfy t… |
| 20-6618 |
Marcel Malachowski v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-united-states civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process extra-judicial-circumstances habeas-corpus impartiality ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-v-washington |
Whether an appeal brought under 28 U.S.C. 2255 is subject to the avenue of relief granted when an appellate court fails to adequately resolve ineffect… |
| 20-793 |
Samir Rafic Khoury v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-defendant criminal-procedure indictment-dismissal mandamus mandamus-relief post-indictment-delay post-judgment-review prejudice speedy-trial |
Whether a Court of Appeals may review, on petition for a writ of mandamus, the denial of a criminal defendant's motion to dismiss the indictment on sp… |
| 20-6601 |
Savannah Sifuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure elements-of-offense essential-element forfeiture guilty-plea indictment indictment-challenge statutory-interpretation waiver |
Whether a defendant who unsuccessfully moves to dismiss an indictment for failure to allege an essential element of the crime waives or forfeits the a… |
| 20-6572 |
Deshawn Legrier v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-consideration felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions plain-error-review rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states sufficiency-of-evidence trial-record |
Whether an appellate court can consider evidence outside the trial record to conclude that a Rehaif-based error did not seriously affect the fairness,… |
| 20-6577 |
Victor Mondragon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court downward-adjustment federal-jurisdiction panel-review standard-of-review |
Did the district court err by denying Mr. Mondragon a three-level downward adjustment for acceptance of responsibility? |
| 20-6585 |
Bernard Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process felon-in-possession fifth-amendment jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states substantial-rights |
Whether courts of appeals may consider the entire record, including a presentence report, in determining if the defendant's substantial rights were af… |
| 20-6590 |
Jimmy Pike v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court's denial of a mitigating role adjustment was clear error |
| 20-788 |
Wilbur S. Veasy, et al. v. Fraternal Order of Police Jim Fogleman Lodge #50, Inc. |
Florida |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-court appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process procedural-impropriety standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal's decision unfairly deprived citizens of their constitutional rights to access-to-court and due-pr… |
| 20-6556 |
Harvey Bass v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit affirmed Bass' sentence where Bass' sentence was unreasonable in light of the s… |
| 20-6569 |
Quincey Frye v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review felon-in-possession judicial-proceedings jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error rehaif-v-united-states second-circuit trial-record |
Should the Court of Appeals have looked beyond the trial record to Frye's presentence investigation report to decide that there was no plain error tha… |
| 20-783 |
Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-08 |
GVR |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-rights-removal court-of-appeals federal-officer-removal jurisdiction remand-order removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou… |
| 20-769 |
GS Cleantech Corporation, et al. v. Adkins Energy LLC, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-12-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review federal-circuit patent patent-act patent-law standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the Federal Circuit, in cases arising under the Patent Act, may depart from the uniform rule of the other Circuit Courts that an issue resolve… |
| 20-6516 |
Eric Dynell McGadney v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion molina-martinez per-se-rule prejudice prejudicial-error sentencing-error sentencing-framework sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentencing court's statement that it would have imposed the same sentence regardless of the Guidelines creates a per se rule that a miscalcu… |
| 20-6521 |
Hector Valdez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure first-step-act retroactivity sentencing statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
Whether a defendant's pre-First Step Act waiver of appeal rights applies to claims based on the First Step Act's passage |
| 20-6527 |
Byron Brown v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review bivens civil-rights criminal-procedure damages due-process federal-government legal-interpretation seventh-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's dismissal of petitioner's civil rights claims against the United States government… |
| 20-6497 |
Andrey Bridges v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-power access-to-courts appellate-review civil-forum civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-review self-representation |
When the doors of the Court(s] are willfully, maliciously, and improperly closed to non-influential, self-represented persons |
| 20-6510 |
Lawrence W. Ford v. Anita L. Budde |
Nevada |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review due-process judicial-discretion judicial-integrity judicial-review plain-error pro-se |
Whether the appellate court abused its discretion in mischaracterizing the trial court record and relying on erroneous facts |
| 20-6487 |
Andrew Johnston v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdictional-challenge sentencing suppression-of-evidence |
Question not identified |
| 20-6494 |
Jose Andres Vera-Gutierrez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error witness-credibility |
Whether erroneously admitted evidence critical to proving an element of the charged offense can be deemed harmless based on the appellate court's dete… |
| 20-749 |
Kathy Roux v. Dennis Pharris, et al. |
Texas |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure due-process factual-analysis legal-analysis sanctions standard-of-review state-law trial-court-sanctions |
Whether the Tenth Court of Appeals for the State of Texas failed to apply the proper standard of review and perform the correct factual and legal anal… |
| 20-752 |
Gavin B. Davis v. California |
California |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing totality-of-circumstances |
Did the 4% Dist., Div. 1, Court of Appeal, California, err in its inquiry and application of Boykin-Tahl analysis under its 'totality of circumstances… |
| 20-6468 |
Kinzey Shaw v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure drug-quantity evidence sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether there was sufficient foundation to support the District Court's drug quantity approximation? |
| 20-6473 |
Jessica Arnold v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court failure-to-address judicial-discretion mitigation procedural-error sentencing sentencing-mitigation standard-of-review trial-counsel |
What standard applies to appellate review of the appeal of a district court's failure to address arguments of counsel in mitigation of sentencing, whe… |
| 20-6474 |
Pedro Fermin Barajas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-6437 |
Tommy Pena v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review upward-variance |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's toothless standard for reviewing the reasonableness of an upward variance is contrary to this Court's case law, United Sta… |
| 20-6409 |
Hugo Humberto Perez Rangel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
advisory-opinions appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing guideline-error harmless-error incentive-to-object judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-6412 |
Robert St. Hilaire v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing firearm-possession sentencing-guidelines serial-number serial-number-alteration statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Second Circuit properly construed the meaning of U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(b)(4)(B) |
| 20-714 |
Stephen A. Saccoccia v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture-law gross-disproportionality joint-and-several-liability joint-liability statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the courts of appeal may create exceptions to this Court's finding in Honeycutt v. United States |
| 20-6402 |
Eric Treantos v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review booker-standard booker-v-united-states criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing first-circuit-court-of-appeals gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-eric-treantos |
Does the First Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in petitioner's case conflict with this Court's decisions in Booker v. United States and Gall v. Uni… |
| 20-6406 |
Jeffrey Neal Cuddington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split history-and-characteristics preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure substantive-reasonableness |
what-is-required-to-preserve-procedural-reasonableness-claim |
| 20-708 |
Joe Nathan James v. Terry Raybon, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
|
28-U.S.C.-2254-d appellate-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigation-evidence post-conviction-review strickland-standard |
Whether the Court of Appeals failed to follow the review requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and the case law produced surrounding Strickland-v-Washin… |
| 20-6381 |
Domenico Anastasio v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court indictment rico-conspiracy second-circuit standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 20-6382 |
Randall Allen Eplion, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-practice plea-agreement sentencing standing waiver |
Whether a provision in a plea agreement which bars the defendant from appealing 'the right to seek appellate review of . . . any sentence of imprisonm… |
| 20-6388 |
Joel Latrent Fletcher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-law criminal-procedure plain-error rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court should grant review to resolve a split between the circuits courts' determination of whether error under Rehaif v. United States, 1… |
| 20-6367 |
Kissinger St. Fleur v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review buyer-seller-transaction cocaine-distribution conspiracy criminal-conspiracy criminal-procedure drug-crimes due-process fair-trial judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions |
Did the district court and the Eleventh Circuit deny Mr. St. Fleur a fair trial when it failed to give buyer-seller instructions to the jury? |
| 20-6374 |
Terrance Nathaniel Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-law drug-conspiracy fourth-circuit harmless-error sentencing united-states-v-harchulik |
Whether the Court of Appeals misapplied the harmless error doctrine announced in United States v. Harchulik, regarding Brown's sentence for drug consp… |
| 20-687 |
Walter L. Allen v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process eminent-domain federal-court legal-procedure property-rights standing takings |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the government seized his property without just compensation |
| 20-6363 |
Andres Fernando Cabezas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review civil-procedure due-process magistrate magistrate-recommendation plain-error plea-agreement report-and-recommendation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court commits plain error by not waiting the fourteen days allotted by 28 U.S.C. § 636 prior to adopting a magistrate's Report and … |
| 20-6364 |
Donovan G. Davis, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-recusal recusal standing statutory-compliance |
Whether a case must proceed to final judgment with a judge who harbors actual bias against a litigant in order to obtain appellate review of the judge… |
| 20-6336 |
Eric Troy Snell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-standard gall-v-united-states harmless-error harmlessness-standard sentencing-guidelines |
Does the Fourth Circuit's practice of not addressing erroneous Sentencing Guidelines calculations but affirming a sentence under 'assumed error harmle… |
| 20-6299 |
Brayan Jassiel Leyva-Peraza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split discretionary-review due-process judicial-discretion knowing-and-voluntary plea-agreement supervisory-powers unconscionability |
Whether the plea agreement was unconscionable and the plea was knowing and voluntary |
| 20-6317 |
Robert Petty v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review closing-arguments constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether the Indiana Courts erred in denying Appellant effective assistance of trial counsel during closing arguments and sentencing, violating the Fif… |
| 20-6319 |
Kathleen McCullough v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-order legal-appeal procedural-error standing |
Whether the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its final order dismissing Petitioner's claims |
| 20-656 |
Robert Kinghorn, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure federal-courts federal-jurisdiction intervention intervention-standard judicial-discretion motion-to-intervene procedural-motion standard-of-review |
What is the correct legal standard of review for determining a Motion to Intervene as of right as well as a Motion to Permissively Intervene when the … |
| 20-627 |
E. H., III v. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Licensing |
Florida |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights concealed-carry constitutional-law due-process expungement expungement-order firearms firearms-permit full-faith-and-credit state-reciprocity |
Did the Florida Court of Appeal commit reversible error and abuse its discretion in declining to recognize and apply Petitioner's New Jersey Expungeme… |
| 20-6274 |
Fernando Juarez, aka Fernando Perez-Juarez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing judicial-discretion overarching-goal presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness-standard rita-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the presumption of reasonableness for within-guidelines sentences approved in Rita v. United States, 551 U.S. 338 (2007) has proved incompatib… |
| 20-616 |
Stephen Durr v. Department of the Army, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation motion-to-vacate procedural-rights standing statute-claim statutory-interpretation |
Did The U.S. District Court (Washington, DC), Abuse The U.S. Court Of Appeals (Washington DC) Abuse Discretion In The Denial Of The Petitioner Motion … |
| 20-6246 |
Adam Joseph Bogema v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing mental-illness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness unwarranted-disparity |
Whether this Court should provide some guidance to the appellate courts on the proper evaluation of a within guidelines sentence vis-a-vis 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 20-611 |
Robert J. Doyle v. Jacqueline M. Vigilante |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-violation due-process judicial-procedure procedural-due-process right-to-sue |
Whether the right to sue, right of access to courts, and procedural due process require a court of appeals to address and resolve every issue raised o… |
| 20-6213 |
J. Santos Mondragon-Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-authority imprisonment-revocation plain-error reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release |
Whether sentences of imprisonment following the revocation of supervised release should be reviewed for reasonableness or plain unreasonableness? |
| 20-6226 |
Carlos Maez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-instructions jury-verdict olano-standard plain-error plain-error-test sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Whether a conviction following incorrect jury instructions, failure of the petit jury to make a finding on an essential element of a crime, and an app… |
| 20-6209 |
Louis Sanders v. Charles Williams, Jr., Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review threshold-inquiry |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability, in conflict with this Court's decisions in Miller-El and Slack v. McDaniel |
| 20-6206 |
Travis Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing eighth-amendment proportionality proportionate-penalties sentencing solem-v-helm state-courts supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Illinois Appellant Courts must be required to follow the United States Supreme Court's opinion in Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277 (1983), when ana… |
| 20-6192 |
Jamal Aikeem Hutchinson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process firearms guilty-plea henderson-v-morgan plain-error plain-error-review statutory-interpretation |
Can the appellate courts' divergent approaches to plain error review of pre-Rehaif guilty pleas be reconciled with one another? |
| 20-6147 |
Shane Anthony Roberts v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-right waiver |
Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied Mr. Roberts of the statutory right to appeal his 70-month sentence |
| 20-6155 |
Jordan Sandoval v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split congress-intent judicial-discretion proportional-sentencing reasonableness-standard reckless-conduct sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform-act substantive-reasonableness |
Does the substantial deference afforded to within-Guidelines sentences permit appellate courts to permit a flawed Guideline to anchor the sentencing a… |
| 20-6140 |
Roger Jose Almanzar v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability counsel-performance due-process first-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer sixth-amendment |
Did the First Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the merits of the claims of ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 20-6129 |
Matthew R. Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review due-process jury-instructions plain-error |
Whether a conviction after (a) an incomplete indictment, (b) incorrect jury instructions, (c) failure of the petit jury to make a finding on an essent… |
| 20-6131 |
Deandre M. Smith v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review corroboration demonstrative-evidence due-process felon-in-possession recanted-statements |
Whether a state appellate court's revision of procedural historical facts contrary to the record, evidence, and understanding of the court and parties… |
| 20-6123 |
Dale C. Holcombe v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment racketeering stolen-property |
Whether possession of an item that is one or more transactions removed from an alleged theft constitutes possession of stolen property |
| 20-6124 |
Jose Maria Loaiza-Gaspar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guideline-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion when it granted appointed counsel's motion to withdraw and dism… |
| 20-531 |
Derek Hutter v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-hearing |
Whether the court of appeals improperly denied the Petitioner a certificate of appealability |
| 20-6052 |
Donald R. Conway v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review case-law-conflict circuit-court-precedent constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection procedural-default |
Did the Court of Appeals err or abuse its discretion |
| 20-6059 |
Paul Edward Duran v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review arbitration-award civil-rights constitutional-violations district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-arbitration-act federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-discretion motion-to-vacate |
Did the Ninth Circuit Court err by not issuing a COA, when the Court had knowledge that there were allegations of constitutional violations that were … |
| 20-6027 |
Michael Moore v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-sentencing gvr mens-rea rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether §924(e)(2)(A)(ii) requires knowledge of the substance's illicit nature |
| 20-483 |
Artem Koshkalda v. Seiko Epson Corporation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
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abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-termination civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure legal-order ninth-circuit sanctions |
Did the district court err in imposing case-terminating sanctions? |
| 20-5980 |
Anthony Brawner, aka Anthony Barber v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure court-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-standard standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Can a valid claim of subject-matter jurisdiction ever come under a procedural bar? |
| 20-5988 |
Ziyad Yaghi v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel gvr plea-process sixth-amendment |
Whether this Court should GVR the lower court's decision denying a Certificate of Appealability |
| 20-448 |
Kenneth Ray Strickland v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
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appellate-review assault corpus-delicti directed-verdict due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel summary-rejection summation trial-counsel |
Whether the appellate court's rejection of the trial court's favorable fact findings violated due process |
| 20-5952 |
Patrick Muraca v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure jury-instructions jury-request operative-term trial-court |
Whether a trial court must provide a definition for a term of operative significance when it is requested by a deliberating jury? |
| 20-5968 |
Rochelle Driessen v. Miami-Dade County, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2020-10-08 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure court-access due-process florida-constitution judicial-procedure jurisdiction |
Whether the Supreme Court of Florida denied petitioner access to the court pursuant Article 1, Section 21 of the Florida Constitution when it declined… |
| 20-5922 |
Julia Hook v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-access due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment judicial-abuse judicial-bias judicial-taking sanctions |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings |
| 20-5936 |
Mark Phillip Carter, II v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split factual-objections judicial-discretion presentence-report sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure undue-influence |
Whether the undue influence enhancement in USSG § 2G1.3(b)(2)(B) should be expanded |
| 20-442 |
Kelly Colvard Parsons v. Richard Jearl Parsons |
Tennessee |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
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appellate-review attorney-fees divorce-decree marital-property modification property-rights retirement-benefits vested-interest |
Did the Appellate Court err in concluding that Wife did not obtain a vested, nonmodifiable property interest in her share of Husband's marital retirem… |
| 20-5924 |
Patricia Wynn v. Mark Butler, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Labor, et al. |
Georgia |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-intervention due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-proceedings legal-review procedural-standards supervisory-power |
Whether the Court below so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, as to call for an exercise of this Court's supervi… |
| 20-5930 |
Diego Palacios-Villalon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure culpability drug-trafficking judicial-discretion mitigating-role sentencing-guidelines |
Does a defendant have the sole obligation in the establishment of these elements or does the trial judge have a duty to inquire into them? |
| 20-430 |
Justin Marques Henning v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process equipoise-rule evidence mere-presence |
Whether a criminal defendant may be convicted based solely on evidence of his mere presence near the scene of the crime, without any evidence that the… |
| 20-431 |
John L. Corrigan, Sr. v. Grant County, Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment motion-to-dismiss standing sua-sponte summary-judgment |
Was Corrigan's U.S. Constitutional Fifth Amendment right to due process violated? |
| 20-5892 |
Russell A. Stoddard v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment enhanced-sentence fourteenth-amendment sentencing state-law |
Does the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment prohibit a state from imposing a prison sentence that exceeds the maximum pr… |
| 20-5903 |
Christopher Younger v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing-law prison-sentence reasonableness-review sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court ordered an unreasonable 120-month prison sentence |
| 20-5909 |
David Conerly v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-review judicial-review ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by mining the district record to uphold an upward adjustment to petitioner's offense level under the Sentencing Guidelines? |
| 20-5916 |
Veronica Delph v. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law due-process issue-preservation legal-basis procedural-fairness trial-court |
Does a court of appeals deny a party due process under the 14th Amendment when it decides the case on a basis never litigated or passed on as a matter… |
| 20-417 |
Sanjay Bhardwaj v. State Bar of California |
California |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment forgery new-trial new-trial-motion standing state-bar trial-transcripts |
Can California State Bar Court consider trial transcripts which are not certified, are false and product of antecedent forgery after trial, for purpos… |
| 20-5880 |
Deepak Deshpande v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction meaningful-access statutory-interpretation transcript |
Whether the petitioner's right to meaningful access to the courts and meaningful appeal of a criminal conviction was violated by the lower courts' den… |
| 20-5851 |
John Christopher Badgett v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the sentence and remand to the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration in light of United States v. Haymo… |
| 20-5852 |
Robert Louis Brandon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review automatic-reversal circuit-split criminal-procedure guilty-plea prejudice-inquiry rehaif-error rehaif-v-united-states structural-error |
Is a district court's error under Rehaif v. United States a structural error that warrants automatic reversal of a guilty plea? |
| 20-5853 |
Ubaldo Gabriel Acosta-Leyva v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-guidelines drug-offense due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence produced by the drug guideline, §2D1.1, is not entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal |
| 20-5804 |
Bobby Burghart v. Sarah Beyer |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights counsel discovery district-court due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-standard reversible-error standing |
Did the District Court err, and did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals compound the errors, when petitioner's request for counsel was denied, because… |
| 20-5825 |
Larry Lamar Nance v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review central-thesis circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion mitigation mitigation-arguments sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a sentencing court must address all material, non-frivolous arguments in mitigation |
| 20-389 |
Peter J. Schaffer, et al. v. Joey Long |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
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appellate-review bristol-myers-squibb civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process personal-jurisdiction specific-jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction waiver waiver-of-rights |
Does a full litigation of the merits of a personal jurisdictional challenge sufficiently preserve the issue for full review on appeal? |
| 20-5800 |
Robert L. Rose v. Lynn Guyer, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability discretionary-ruling federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-procedure reasonable-jurists rule-70(a) |
Whether a certificate of appealability is required to appeal an order denying a motion for enforcement made pursuant to Rule 70(a) of the Federal Rule… |
| 20-5816 |
Jose Antonio Acevedo-Lemus v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error probable-cause search-warrant suppression-motion waiver |
Whether a new theory raised on appeal in support of a suppression motion is reviewable for plain error or under Rule 12's good-cause standard |
| 20-5817 |
Thomas Lewis v. Jonathan Decker, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-rules grievance-procedure jurisdictional-challenge procedural-due-process standing summary-judgment |
Whether the appeals court erred in granting summary judgment based on a purported 'waived defense' under FRCP 12(b)(6) and contravening numerous decis… |
| 20-5783 |
Chia Jean Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-standard criminal-procedure deliberate-indifference harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit should apply the Chapman beyond a reasonable doubt standard rather than the substantial evidence standard to consider the ha… |
| 20-5794 |
Scott T. Wilbert v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-and-seizure second-circuit suppression-motion |
Should certiorari be granted due to improper affirmation of Fourth Amendment suppression motion denial? |
| 20-367 |
Anna Baran v. ASRC Federal Mission Solutions, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-23 |
Denied |
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appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals defamation discovery-rule dismissal due-process equitable-tolling prejudicial-evidence statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the District Court's Order Dismissing Ms. Baran's Defamation Claim on the Grounds that it was Time-Bar… |
| 20-5757 |
Jerrieus Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process firearms-offense plea-agreement plea-bargaining residual-clause sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Whether the petitioner's convictions for aiding and abetting interference with commerce by robbery, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1951(a) and 2, and ai… |
| 20-5713 |
Jean Dufort Baptichon v. United States, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review counsel-rights district-court-ruling evidentiary-rulings frivolousness frivolousness-standard in-forma-pauperis procedural-discretion procedural-rulings reconsideration-amendment |
Question not identified |
| 20-5730 |
Jimmie Butler v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review |
Whether the district court's improper designation of the petitioner as a career offender was harmless error and whether the court of appeals improperl… |
| 20-5742 |
David Tachay Heard v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-racial-identification due-process eyewitness-identification federal-standard jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error standard-of-review |
Should federal district courts be required to give a cautionary jury instruction, upon a defendant's request, to guide the jury's evaluation of eyewit… |
| 20-5706 |
Mark Berg v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-review legal-determination standard-of-review suppression-hearing suppression-ruling |
When reviewing a suppression ruling on appeal, should the appellate court view the evidence in the light most favorable to the prevailing party or rev… |
| 20-5655 |
Casye Necole Richardson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 20-5657 |
Eric Bernard Scott v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-review mandamus procedural-error standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals abused its discretion |
| 20-5675 |
Robert Trevino v. E. Dotson, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas intentional-oversight judicial-procedure legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing supreme-court |
Did the 14th Circuit depart from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings as to call for an exercise of the Supreme Court's supervisory p… |
| 20-312 |
Texas Brine Company, LLC, et al. v. Rodd Naquin, Clerk, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit |
Louisiana |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review due-process geographical-bias judicial-discretion judicial-procedure panel-assignment random-selection state-law |
Whether due process requires judges to be assigned to panels randomly from the pool of all the judges available to hear a particular case |
| 20-5646 |
Sean Justin Owens v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act commerce-clause criminal-conviction firearm-possession jury prior-conviction prior-convictions rehaif-v-united-states sentencing serious-drug-offense |
Whether courts of appeals may affirm a defendant's conviction by relying on facts about the defendant's prior convictions that were not proven to the … |
| 20-5639 |
TJ Cain, aka Thomas J. Cain v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure involuntary-confession miranda-rights plain-error pretrial-motion suppression-of-evidence |
When a criminal defendant does not timely file a pretrial motion raising a claim covered by Federal-Rule-of-Criminal-Procedure-12(b)(8), is his claim … |
| 20-5641 |
Steven Turbi v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights counsel-performance due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance legal-standard strickland |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in rejecting Petitioner's claims regarding allegations of counsel being ineffective according to t… |
| 20-5604 |
Atorbe Aaron Isibor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure federal-rules forfeiture olano venue venue-insufficiency waiver waiver-doctrine |
Whether a defendant who argues for the first time on appeal that the government failed to meet its burden to prove venue waives the issue or merely fo… |
| 20-5618 |
Adrian D. Riley v. Joseph Noeth, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review cullen-v-pinholster federal-habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel section-2254 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Whether the court of appeals failed to follow this Court's federal habeas jurisprudence |
| 20-282 |
Sheldon Carmon v. CSX Transportation, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-employers-liability-act notice-of-dangerous-condition railroad-liability summary-judgment witness-credibility |
Whether summary judgment was properly granted in a Federal Employers' Liability Act case |
| 20-5561 |
Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review discretion federal-sentencing first-step-act guidelines judicial-discretion motion-denial sentence-reduction sentencing |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by refusing to review the denial of the defendant's First Step Act motion |
| 20-5568 |
Alex Alberto Castro v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence wiretap-suppression wiretaps |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order denying the defense motion to suppress wiretaps |
| 20-5586 |
Jose Zamudio-Silva v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-sentencing sentencing-departures sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
When considering guidelines rulings, should appellate courts review the decision to depart from the guideline range in the same way as other guideline… |
| 20-5549 |
Javier Lopez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations fact-finding factual-issues federal-sentencing judicial-standard precedent reasonableness-review standard-of-review wrongful-incarceration |
Whether review for reasonableness in federal sentencing requires a separate, more deferential, standard of review for credibility determinations than … |
| 20-5458 |
Fidel Alain Martin-Sosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-conspiracy methamphetamine mitigating-role role-adjustment sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Did the court of appeals err in holding that the district court's guidelines calculations did not constitute clear error where it denied a mitigating … |
| 20-5461 |
Jose Camilo v. New Jersey State Parole Board |
New Jersey |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process extended-term parole parole-board retaliation retaliatory-action sentencing |
Whether the petitioner's case is similar to Trantino v. State of N.J. Parole Board, where the petitioner was issued a retaliatory extended term senten… |
| 20-5508 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-issues statutory-interpretation trial-procedure |
Is Fla. Stat. 924.051(1)(b) unconstitutional due to conflict with the due process clause of the 14th Amendment? |
| 20-5516 |
Joseph Peter Garbarini v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court district-court double-jeopardy due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-disagreement procedural-bar |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability on a double jeopardy claim |
| 20-5517 |
Scotty Ray Gardner v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts aggravating-circumstance aggravating-circumstances appellate-review capital-punishment capital-sentencing death-penalty due-process jury-instructions |
Whether due process requires that every statutory element of an aggravating circumstance be proven beyond a reasonable doubt |
| 20-5533 |
Gayle McNamara v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-history district-court-error downward-variance judicial-discretion offense-level sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Should the petitioner's appeal be reinstated? |
| 20-5507 |
Laci Landers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure discretionary-review drug-offense guidelines judicial-review reasonableness reasonableness-standard revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines totality-of-circumstances |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial pr… |
| 20-5489 |
Rodney Lavalais v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
2k2.1(b)(4)(a) appellate-review due-process guilty-plea plain-error-review plea-voluntariness prejudice sentencing-guidelines stolen structural-error |
When a defendant's plea was not knowingly and intelligently made, is automatic reversal required? |
| 20-5492 |
Ray Lamar Johnston v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-punishment constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process habeas-corpus hurst-v-florida ineffective-assistance jury-instructions procedural-default |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit should have remanded or expanded the appeal |
| 20-5494 |
Ernest Ray Snow v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-warrant standard-of-review |
Does United State v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), permit an appellate standard of review that requires an appellant to raise and rebut the applicability… |
| 20-5453 |
Jose Luis Sanchez-Rosado v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourth-circuit harmless-error involuntary-plea plea-bargaining plea-colloquy standard-of-review |
Whether an unconstitutional conviction based on a plea colloquy that omitted an element of the offense must be reversed where the defendant objected t… |
| 20-5446 |
Jin H. Zheng v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge motion-for-new-trial precedent standing supreme-court-certiorari uniformity |
Jurisdiction of an appeal of an interlocutory order |
| 20-5449 |
Carolyn R. Dawson v. Kevin Pakenham |
Texas |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure forcible-detainer no-evidence-motion property-rights summary-judgment texas-law |
Whether Texas courts have properly distinguished between motions for no-evidence summary judgment and traditional summary judgment in forcible detaine… |
| 20-5452 |
Judy Thorpe v. Justin Swidler, et al. |
New Jersey |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-division appellate-review certification-denial civil-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review manifest-error prejudice supreme-court-of-new-jersey trial-court |
Whether it was manifest error and significantly prejudicial for the Supreme Court of New Jersey to Deny Certification and Not Fairly and Equitably Rev… |
| 20-5424 |
Alfred Lee Hanzy, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing fourth-circuit gall-precedent gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007) |
| 20-191 |
Patrick Ronald Silva v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process fourth-circuit habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 was unreasonable and confl… |
| 20-5393 |
Timothy McCullough v. Jeff Dennison, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction sentencing void-for-vagueness |
Does the Sentencing court have jurisdiction to sentence a defendant under a statute void or judgment unenforceable under the Constitution? |
| 20-175 |
Jinil Steel Company, Limited v. ValuePart, Incorporated, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure forfeiture judicial-discretion legal-forfeiture oral-argument pleadings preservation-of-error procedural-preservation |
Whether a litigant forfeits an argument by raising it thoroughly in an oral proceeding in bankruptcy court or other court of first instance, but not i… |
| 20-5361 |
Luis Torres-Marquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing discretion gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the sentencing court meaningfully exercised its discretion in applying the guidelines |
| 20-150 |
ThermoLife International LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
|
administrative-patent-judges appellate-review appointments-clause chenery-doctrine constitutional-appointment patent-trial-and-appeal-board principal-officers rehearing unconstitutional-appointments |
Whether the Federal Circuit violated the Chenery doctrine |
| 20-5328 |
Jeffrey Paul Giblin v. Washington |
Washington |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-rules eyewitness-testimony intent intent-standard lay-opinion-testimony |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection guarantees were satisfied for a defendant accused of a crime involving intent, whe… |
| 20-5300 |
Victor Santana-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Does plain error apply to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure Rule 32(i)(4)(a)(ii) when the error is caused by the sentencing court |
| 20-134 |
Abilio Hernandez, et al. v. Jason Boles, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment jury-deference jury-instructions standard-of-review traffic-stop warrant-check |
Should a federal appellate court grant deference to a jury's conclusions of law about constitutional issues in a civil rights lawsuit? |
| 20-5299 |
Antonio Benson v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-instruction jury-instructions self-defense |
Whether the ruling of the Tennessee Supreme Court violated Petitioner's due process protections |
| 20-5298 |
Rodney A. Smith v. Susan Barker, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals de-novo frivolous frivolous-complaint informa-pauperis judicial-discretion standard-of-review |
Whether dismissal of informa pauperis complaint as frivolous is properly reviewed for abuse of discretion and it wass error for court of appeals to re… |
| 20-5251 |
Michael Owen Harriot v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2401b appeals appellate-review civil-procedure district-court federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit heck-v-humphrey jurisdictional-issue standing statute-of-limitations statutory-time-bar |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's lack of authority to raise 28 U.S.C. § 2401(b)'s time bar on its own when the district court's opinion did not rest on § … |
| 20-5254 |
Quintin I. Brown v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence-law felony jury-trial misdemeanor |
Did the Commonwealth of Virginia trial court deny Mr. Brown his constitutional right to jury trial on the misdemeanor charges of receiving stolen prop… |
| 20-106 |
Alberto Vilar, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel massaro-v-united-states procedural-review |
Whether the failure of the district court and the Court of Appeals to consider the expanded habeas record violates Due Process in preventing assessmen… |
| 20-5238 |
Wilbert Hayes v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court circuit-court-of-appeals criminal-procedure extra-record-material extrarecord-material olano-analysis olano-standard plain-error post-rehaif |
Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals should consider extrarecord material in its assessment of the fourth prong of the Olano plain-error analysis |
| 20-5216 |
Brent Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure davis-v-united-states fact-review federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure gvr judicial-procedure plain-error questions-of-fact standard-of-review |
Are questions of fact cognizable on plain error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b)? |
| 20-5227 |
Jesus Hernandez-Medrano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process empirical-basis fifth-circuit illegal-reentry presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a presumption of reasonableness on appeal does not apply to a sentence produced by the illegal reentry guideline, §2L1.2, because that guideli… |
| 20-5200 |
Gerald A. Sanford, Sr. v. Tennessee Department of Correction, et al. |
Tennessee |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings prisoner-rights state-court-discretion state-court-of-appeals statutory-interpretation supervisory-power |
Whether a state court of appeals erred in dismissing a prisoner's case |
| 20-5212 |
In Re Allen Fitzgerald Calton |
|
2020-07-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-law due-process fact-finding factual-findings habeas-corpus judicial-discretion trial-court |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and individual judges thereof acted as the ultimate fact-finders (a Texas habeas corpus proceeding) by den… |
| 20-5213 |
John Cody, aka Bobby Thompson v. Karen Slusher, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine final-judgment interlocutory-order substantive-objections |
Whether the court of appeals erred in refusing to consider or review substantive objections to a trial court's interlocutory order that obviously affe… |
| 20-76 |
Ghassan Hage v. Fida Mhanna |
California |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure contempt-of-court due-process judicial-discretion judicial-procedure |
Whether the lower court erred in its ruling despite a prior court order |
| 20-5167 |
Jean McIntosh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure due-process jurisdiction standing |
Was the Court of Appeals decision to dismiss the appeal in error? |
| 20-5140 |
Wilfredo Torres v. City of New York, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-procedure petition-for-certiorari qualified-immunity standing warrantless-raids warrantless-search |
Whether the U.S. District Court-Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in dismissing the petitioner'… |
| 20-5150 |
Ernest R. Jenkins v. Daniel Clarke, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-right habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review jurisdiction standing state-prosecution |
Was the Circuit Court's denial of the petitioner's request for a certificate of apealability (COA) erroneous? |
| 20-50 |
Monica Voss v. Gregory G. Goode |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 standing sua-sponte |
Whether an appellate court may impute third-party actions to a § 1983 claimant as the basis for qualified immunity |
| 20-5124 |
Allen Fitzgerald Calton v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-07-21 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion materiality petition-review |
Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals abused its discretion and erred in denying Petitioner's State Application For Writ Of Habeas Corpus on the… |
| 20-5071 |
David P. Moran v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process fourteenth-amendment motion-preservation preservation-of-error standing trial-procedure |
Is Fla. Stat. 924.051(1)(b) unconstitutional due to conflict with 14th Amendment due-process |
| 20-5108 |
Salvador Ojeda-Amarillas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure firearms-enhancement leadership-role necessity necessity-requirement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines waiver wiretap wiretap-application |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in finding the July 2006 wiretap application met the necessity requirements and whether it erred in holding Mr. Oje… |
| 20-5070 |
Joaquin Shadow Rams v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia sufficiency-of-evidence virginia |
Whether Virginia's standard of review for appellate claims of insufficient evidence in criminal convictions violates the Due Process Clause as interpr… |
| 20-5090 |
Ronald Lynn Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing guidelines harmless-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether Guideline error is necessarily harmless if the district court is presented with the Guideline range later vindicated on appeal and disclaims a… |
| 20-5053 |
Deandre Lornell Brown v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing departure judicial-discretion presumptively-reasonable procedural-error sentencing-guidelines variance variance-standard |
Whether the district court's decision when imposing sentence improperly treated the sentencing guidelines |
| 20-5066 |
Everett L. Spillard v. Superior Court of California, Humboldt County, et al. |
California |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-courts transcripts |
Can the Superior Court and its DA violate due process rights and omit judicial mistakes/misconduct from transcripts? |
| 20-5069 |
Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Banco Santander Puerto Rico |
First Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process evidence-disregard fair-credit-reporting-act judicial-misconduct pro-se-representation public-interest standing supreme-court-rules |
Whether verifiable evidence has no importance and the one with more money is correct, no matter evidence shows is completely wrong |
| 20-5073 |
Gilberto Martinez-Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure clear-error evidentiary-errors harmless-error judicial-review judicial-standard legal-sufficiency standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals committed clear error by concluding that significant evidentiary errors were harmless |
| 20-5039 |
Antwoyn Terrell Spencer v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit fifth-amendment grand-jury-indictment habeas-corpus personal-liberty |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Erred Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 20-5022 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Sara Glines, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law agency-decision appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process federal-circuit judicial-interpretation pleadings precedential-opinion standing |
Whether petitioner's complaint contains sufficient factual allegations to survive a motion to dismiss |
| 20-5023 |
Carter Vincent Anderson v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-violation constitutional-rights due-process evidence-preservation evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the District Court and Court of Appeal erred in review of claim presented which clearly show ineffective assistance of counsel on both trial a… |
| 20-1 |
Nicholas E. Davis v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review court-martial criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions plain-error supreme-court-precedent waiver |
Whether the failure to object to a pattern jury instruction erroneously describing the elements of the offense constitutes affirmative waiver such tha… |
| 20-5007 |
Anthony Ray Foley v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split due-process federal-sentencing sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release |
Is the 'reasonableness' standard or the 'plainly unreasonable' standard the proper standard for appellate review of a sentence imposed upon revocation… |
| 20-5014 |
Darwin Josue Peralta v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence jury-instructions legal-standards right-to-present-defense standard-of-review |
Whether the trial court erred and violated Mr. Pecoraro's rights to present a complete defense by prohibiting him from introducing Doris Murillo's and… |
| 20-5015 |
James Latron Sumter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment first-step-act guilty-plea mandatory-minimum plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the district court's ruling not allowing Sumter to withdraw his guilty plea |
| 20-5018 |
Roy Howard Middleton v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-law-application habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-precedent stare-decisis supreme-court-precedent |
Did the courts apply SCOTUS precedent in Price v. Georgia and Strickland v. Washington correctly? |
| 19-8923 |
Bryant Okeff Leggett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-activity drug-house evidence judicial-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines trial-court-error |
Whether the district court improperly applied a two-level enhancement for maintaining a drug house where there was no evidence that the defendant's pr… |
| 19-1478 |
John Kristoffer Larsgard v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adequate-appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel omitted-issues procedural-safeguards smith-v-robbins |
Whether the process of review implemented by Arizona in claims of ineffective assistance of counsel satisfy Fourteenth Amendment protections |
| 19-8895 |
Dario M. Rodriguez v. Alan Lawson, Justice, Supreme Court of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts indigent-appeal pro-se procedural-restrictions standing |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, the Younger abstention doctrine, and the cou… |
| 19-8842 |
Angel Prado v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-provisions constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jurisdiction search-and-seizure sentencing-standards speedy-trial |
Question not identified |
| 19-8887 |
Maria Pena-Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court evidence-admissibility evidence-admission evidentiary-standard federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-error rule-403 rule-404(b) |
Is it error by the district court to fail to enumerate the specific basis for allowing evidence pursuant for Federal Rule of Evidence section 404(b) s… |
| 19-8863 |
Michael Strausbaugh v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appealability appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-district-court habeas-corpus judicial-determination miller-el-doctrine procedural-standard standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals correctly determined that the requirements of Miller-El v. Cockrell for a Certificate of Appealability were not met |
| 19-8879 |
Gurminder Sekhon v. California |
California |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines judicial-process standing trial-transcript |
Did the courts violate the petitioner's due process rights by rejecting a defense under the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines? |
| 19-8886 |
Jon Edward Erickson v. Thomas E. Collins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Cochise County, et al. |
Arizona |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process trial-record trial-records |
Did the trial court err in violating the Petitioner's 5th and 6th Amendment rights, by failing to provide/produce the records and transcripts of the f… |
| 19-8869 |
Robert Wade v. Monroe County District Attorney, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-action District-Attorney's-Office-for-the-Third-Judicial- district-court-order due-process rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 Skinner-v-Switzer standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Rooker-Feldman doctrine was properly applied |
| 19-1433 |
Autumn Stavely v. Jeffery G. Norman, et al. |
Utah |
2020-06-29 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment appellate-review change-of-venue due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-sanctions Question not identified. sanctions venue-change |
Did the Supreme Court of Utah violate Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process rights when it sanctioned her and her counsel for seeking appellat… |
| 19-8826 |
Andrea Genrette v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay lower-court manifest-error petition-for-rehearing third-circuit |
Was the Third Circuit's denial of the Petition for Rehearing an error? |
| 19-8827 |
David Fowler v. Indymac Bank, FSB, et al. |
New York |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel complaint-dismissal court-of-appeals due-process judicial-review leave-to-amend motion-for-leave state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether the State of New York Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's motion for leave to appeal without detailed reasoning |
| 19-8830 |
Justin Michael Oxendine v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion legal-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
Whether the district court abused its discretion by varying upward |
| 19-8795 |
Jeremia Joseph Loper v. Nate Knutson, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
adversarial-testing appellate-counsel appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exculpatory-evidence fair-trial ineffective-assistance procedural-default |
Was Mr. Loper denied the right to a fair trial and the effective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 19-8784 |
Chester Brown v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-proceedings due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lower-court motion-denial standard-of-review |
Did the lower court err when it denied petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability? |
| 19-8752 |
Derrick Michael Allen, Sr. v. Annette Moore, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights complaint-dismissal due-process fourth-circuit judicial-procedure jurisdiction official-misconduct precedent standing |
Whether the petitioner's complaint contains sufficient factual allegations to survive a motion to dismiss |
| 19-8754 |
Francisco Armando Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split consensual-encounter district-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion standard-of-review suppression |
Whether an appellate court must uphold the ruling of the district court if there is any reasonable view of the evidence to support it where the distri… |
| 19-8697 |
Shiron Deshane Davis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review legal-jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule |
| 19-8719 |
Brown Laster, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict circuit-split court-of-appeals criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-precedent kotteakos-standard kotteakos-v-united-states sentencing uniformity |
whether-the-eleventh-circuit-entered-a-decision-that-conflicts-with-this-court's-precedent |
| 19-8704 |
Rolando Q. Alvarado v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review circuit-court due-process evidentiary-hearing factual-determination habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-error statutory-interpretation unreasonable-determination-of-facts |
Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals is based on an unreasonable determination of the facts due to an incomplete record and is c… |
| 19-8694 |
Joseph D. Rouse v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-851 appeal-waiver appellate-review due-process mandatory-minimum notice-requirement plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Does the express language of 21 U.S.C. § 851 require prior written notice of the particular conviction the government seeks to use to enhance a mandat… |
| 19-1372 |
Angel M. Ayala-Vazquez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fifth-amendment judicial-proceedings perjured-testimony sixth-amendment standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower courts circumvented the standard of review for issuing a certificate of appealability |
| 19-1359 |
Michelle Dawn Murphy v. City of Tulsa, Oklahoma |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
|
an abuse of discretion because it violates the pa and wrong factually about the issue it reached ou which was based on an issue not presented on appe abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process party-presentation sineneng-smith standing summary-judgment tenth-circuit united-states-v-sineneng-smith |
Is the Tenth Circuit's affirmance of summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Appellee City of Tulsa an abuse of discretion? |
| 19-8679 |
Dan Reed v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states status-knowledge statutory-interpretation substantial-rights united-states-v-reed |
Whether the courts of appeals may consider the entire record, including a presentence report, in determining if a defendant's substantial rights were … |
| 19-8664 |
Charles T. Kirvin v. California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdictional-challenges legal-standing petition-denial procedural-grounds standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit arbitrarily and erroneously denied Appellant a Certificate of Appealability |
| 19-8638 |
Walter Brzowski v. Executive Committee of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-review procedural-due-process remand removal removal-jurisdiction statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Can the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit review and discredit a previously entered Certified Copy of Order of Remand |
| 19-8608 |
Kison Robertson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternative-evidence appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-ruling judicial-misconduct standing trial-procedure |
How does the U.S. Court of Appeals hold the District Court Decision to be erroneous based on the evidence that was not proven to have occurred in the … |
| 19-8611 |
Adam Scott v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-circuit-split appellate-review assault crime-of-violence dangerous-weapon due-process federal-criminal-law sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does applying this automatic rule ignore or misinterpret this Court's caselaw, given the variety of items that are classified as dangerous weapons and… |
| 19-8616 |
Anthony Helton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court fourth-circuit judicial-procedure legal-error motion-to-dismiss standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Helton's motion to dismiss? |
| 19-1340 |
David Tribble, et al. v. First Security Bank, et al. |
Arkansas |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals appellate-review arkansas-judiciary civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process equal-protection procedure state-court supreme-court |
Did reliance on the Appellate Review Attorney for the Office of the Clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court and Court of Appeals' instruction for drafting… |
| 19-8592 |
Maria Soly Almonte, aka Soly Almonte, aka Soly La Fuerte, aka SoSo, aka SoSo Wavy, aka Soly Montana v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
age-of-consent appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process obstruction-of-justice procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Almonte's sentence was procedurally unreasonable |
| 19-8559 |
Christopher Scott Jepsen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review child-pornography criminal-law due-process federal-conviction prior-judgment sentencing sentencing-enhancement void-judgment |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit erred by concluding that Mr. Jepsen was subject to an enhanced sentence for his fede… |
| 19-8563 |
Michael Lee v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-review due-process first-time-offender life-sentence sentencing sentencing-review sex-crimes |
Whether a circuit court is presented with a substantial question warranting full appellate review rather than summary disposition when a petitioner wi… |
| 19-8547 |
Joseph D. Blueford v. Timothy Hooper, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review due-process fair-trial harmless-error impartial-tribunal judicial-discretion jury jury-competence sixth-amendment |
Does a petitioner have the right to a fair-and-impartial-trial when a juror does not hear-or-understand-the-evidence |
| 19-8545 |
Duane Blake v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-witness jury post-conviction-relief procedural-default |
Did the state of Florida violate due process by excluding an expert witness for the defense in an attempted murder trial |
| 19-8537 |
Susan Xiao-Ping Su v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-remedy procedural-error sentencing |
whether the Ninth Circuit should sua sponte vacate a grand jury conviction and sentence because the defendant alleges court error in failing to apply … |
| 19-8465 |
Earl T. Moore v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus procedural-timeliness third-circuit timeliness writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability on His Claim that His Petition for a Writ of Hab… |
| 19-8451 |
Michael Skinner v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process factual-determination habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default state-court-decision state-court-review trial-record |
Is a State Court Decision an Unreasonable Determination of the facts When it Determines That a Claim Was not Sufficiently Developed in the Record for … |
| 19-8440 |
Katherine O'Neal v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error evidence-admission harmless-error jury-trial overwhelming-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether a constitutional error in the admission of evidence is harmless based on the strength of the untainted proof or the error's contribution to th… |
| 19-1281 |
Dimitritza Toromanova v. Summit Real Estate Services, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure claim-preclusion federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure frcp-60(b) frcp-60(d) independent-action judicial-procedure ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-60(d) |
Did the doctrine of Claim Preclusion preclude a party from asserting the right to file a complaint as an independent action under FRCP 60(d) |
| 19-8412 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure discretion discretionary-review forfeiture plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Should the Second Circuit Court of Appeals exercise its discretion to correct the forfeited error of Petitioner's miscalculated guideline sentence tha… |
| 19-8400 |
Roy Allen Nichols v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law court-of-appeals criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process factfinding fifth-amendment sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether a Court of Appeals violates a criminal defendant's right to Due Process |
| 19-8390 |
Do Kyun Kim v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-8373 |
Frank Silva Roque v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-04-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules federal-law habeas-corpus standing |
Did the Arizona court err in upholding the state court's ruling contrary to federal law on a reasonable appeal of federal claims? |
| 19-8372 |
Abdul Hakiym Ismaiyl v. Donald C. Nugent |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-review clearly-erroneous clearly-erroneous-standard factual-findings frivolous-claims in-forma-pauperis judicial-discretion record-review standard-of-review |
Whether a Circuit court abdicates its duty by accepting clearly erroneous factual findings without reviewing the record |
| 19-8353 |
Curtis Stokes v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-equal-protection criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief strickland-standard sufficiency-of-evidence |
Does Indiana have an obligation to equally apply the federal constitution in the same factual scenario? |
| 19-8354 |
Nelson Romero v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court due-process fundamental-liberty liberty-interest procedural-flaws procedural-violation summary-judgment |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's case with prejudice and failing to certify any issue for appellate review, depriving petit… |
| 19-1240 |
Myron Hubbard v. Missouri Department of Mental Health |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1251 appellate-review civil-procedure fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court judicial-misconduct original-jurisdiction retaliatory-action supervisory-power supreme-court-jurisdiction void-judgment void-judgments |
Whether the Court of Appeals and District Courts breached its duty, departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceeding and is of such … |
| 19-8305 |
Kinsley Ononuju v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-04-19 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indigence indigent-defendant transcript transcript-cost |
Whether Virginia's law mandating government to defray cost of trial transcript only for indigent felons, but not indigent misdemeanants, violates Equa… |
| 19-8290 |
Robert Taylor v. Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-procedure procedural-due-process standing |
Did The Circuit Court Abuse Its Discretion? |
| 19-8261 |
Sean Ath v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-standard standard-of-review substantial-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-rahseparian |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals properly applied the 'substantial evidence' test in concluding there was sufficient evidence to affirm Peti… |
| 19-8262 |
Miguel Algarin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-636 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure equitable-exceptions federal-statute judicial-review magistrate magistrate-review objection-standard procedural-waiver waiver |
Whether a party's failure to object to a magistrate's ruling under 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A) creates a jurisdictional bar to appellate review, or merel… |
| 19-8265 |
Jerry Wilson Hartley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation damages due-process judicial-review legal-scope procedural-rights qualified-immunity standing state-actor |
Are the actions of a district court in denying a motion to dismiss a civil rights claim for damages against a state actor constitutional? |
| 19-8266 |
James Heard v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion pro-se-representation right-to-counsel self-representation trial-court |
Whether the trial court erred in denying Somes Heard's pre-trial motion to proceed pro se |
| 19-8256 |
Jerry Browdy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judicial-review motion-for-acquittal sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Browdy's conviction and his motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted |
| 19-1209 |
Thomas Edward Nesbitt v. Scott Frakes |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-04-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
actual-innocence aedpa appellate-review castro-v-us constitutional-rights due-process habeas habeas-corpus non-successiveness panetti-v-quarterman procedural-safeguards |
Does the Appellate Court's obscure Panel denials violate the 1996 A.E.D.P.A. Constitutional Due Process Question in Conflict with the Certiorari Decis… |
| 19-8209 |
Delgen Foye v. North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-trial speedy-trial standing takings |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals erred in refusing to address the violation of the petitioner's 14th Amendment rights |
| 19-8193 |
John Purifoy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review booker booker-decision criminal-procedure downward-departure jurisdiction sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-assistance |
Whether the courts of appeal have jurisdiction under Booker to review a district court's denial of a motion for downward departure under 5K1.1 |
| 19-8174 |
Camille T. Mata v. Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination |
Massachusetts |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights-act due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination race-discrimination race-gender-discrimination superintendent-authority title-ix title-vi |
Should senior legal officers be allowed to deny further appellate review when there is constitutional ground to grant it? |
| 19-8161 |
In Re Curtis Smith |
|
2020-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court due-process federal-courts gatekeeper-standard habeas-corpus sanctions statutory-interpretation |
Did the court of appeal adopt divergent interpretation of the gatekeeper standard? |
| 19-1189 |
BP p.l.c., et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-31 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (20) |
appellate-review civil-rights-removal federal-officer-removal jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits remand remand-order removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether 28 U.S.C. 1447(d) permits a court of appeals to review any issue encompassed in a district court's order remanding a removed case to state cou… |
| 19-8137 |
Rafael Posadas-Gonzalez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness upward-departure |
Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals misapplied the law under U.S.S.G § 4A1.3 and 18 U.S.C. § 3553 (a) sentencing factors |
| 19-8142 |
Robert Sarhan, et ux. v. H & H Investors, Inc. |
Florida |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review denial-of-hearing due-process final-judgment indispensable-party judicial-procedure mortgage-foreclosure sanctions service-of-process void-judgment |
Whether Anabella Soury was denied due process in a mortgage foreclosure case |
| 19-8106 |
Salvador Arteaga Aragon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conspiracy court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-sufficiency judicial-review petitioner standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in finding sufficient evidence to sustain petitioner's conspiracy conviction |
| 19-8108 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights uccjea |
Whether the State of New Hampshire's discretionary appellate process is unlawful or unconstitutional, and whether the State has unlawfully infringed u… |
| 19-1174 |
John W. Kimbrough v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Is it an unreasonable application of federal law to hold, for Strickland purposes, that there was no reasonable probability that the state's appellate… |
| 19-8097 |
Jay Eugene Reed v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-rule-52(b) criminal-rule-52b evidence-rule-103 expert-testimony forfeiture plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in treating the evidentiary issue as forfeited and subject to only plain error review under Evidence Rule 103 and C… |
| 19-8055 |
Corey Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-review sentencing supervisory-power |
Whether the Court should exercise its supervisory power to order further consideration of the petitioner's sentence for biting a finger |
| 19-8065 |
Reinaldo Vasquez-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court-discretion guidelines-range procedural-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in imposing an above-Guidelines sentence without adequately addressing the defendant's arguments for … |
| 19-8073 |
Kenneth Baker v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure standard-of-review statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent third-circuit |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rendered a decision in conflict with the law of the United States Supreme Court announced in Barefo… |
| 19-8085 |
Lamar L. Zamichieli v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction standing |
why the decision of the lower court may be erroneous, but the national importance of having the Supreme Court decide the question involved |
| 19-8048 |
Collyer Goodman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-court circuit-court-split conspiracy criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process narcotics narcotics-conspiracy sentencing shared-objective supreme-court |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred by affirming the judgment of conviction and sentence pronounced by the United … |
| 19-1153 |
Russell A. Suzuki, et al. v. Christopher Deedy |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-1257 appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure double-jeopardy exxon-mobil-v-saudi-basic federal-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction lesser-included-offense lesser-included-offenses standing state-court-judgment state-court-judgments |
Limits on federal court jurisdiction to review state court judgments |
| 19-1156 |
Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General v. Cesar Alcaraz-Enriquez |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-20 |
Judgment Issued |
|
administrative-adjudication administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review credibility credibility-determination due-process immigration-law judicial-review standard-of-review withholding-of-removal |
Whether a court of appeals may conclusively presume an applicant's testimony is credible and true whenever an immigration judge or the Board of Immigr… |
| 19-8019 |
Efrain Sifuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
resulting in an unreasonable sentence appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit sentencing-guidelines unreasonable-sentence |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit improperly condone the District Court's error in applying the United States Sentencing Gu… |
| 19-7998 |
Paul Anthony Montanez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable sentence upon Mr. Montanez? |
| 19-8005 |
Harrison Garcia v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing direct-appeal edwards-v-arizona first-step-act mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums right-to-counsel sentencing sentencing-retroactivity statutory-interpretation |
Whether Section 403 of the First Step Act of 2018 applies where Petitioner's sentence is not final and he would no longer be subject to multiple, mand… |
| 19-7988 |
Junior Jean Baptiste v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process evidence harmless-error hearsay hearsay-standard standard-of-review |
Where hearsay, consisting of an inculpatory, out-of-court statement made other than to law enforcement, is erroneously introduced to the defendant's p… |
| 19-7993 |
Thomas Victor Sway v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability conclusory-order conflict-of-interest discretionary-review due-process equitable-tolling precedent procedural-due-process standard-of-review strickland-standard |
When denial of COA was made in conclusory order without any precedent to rely on and there exists no sufficient basis for appellate court to review, w… |
| 19-1120 |
Monette E. Saccameno v. Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
7th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process judicial-review new-trial punitive-damages reexamination-clause remittitur seventh-amendment |
Does the Reexamination Clause of the Seventh Amendment allow the Circuit Court to fix the amount of punitive damages without offering a remittitur or … |
| 19-7957 |
Damar D. Ruffin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process evidence evidence-law jury-instruction jury-trial reversible-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals committed reversible error in determining the amount of a controlled substance |
| 19-7970 |
Shawnte L. Shade v. Rusty Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus holland-v-florida ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-unconstitutionality statute-of-limitations |
Whether the Petitioner's statute of limitation was equitably tolled under Holland v. Florida |
| 19-7943 |
J. H. v. E. R. S. |
Colorado |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review child-custody constitutional-facts constitutional-liberty de-novo-review due-process equal-protection parental-rights plain-error structural-error termination termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses require application of the plain error doctrine and independent de novo review of constitutional … |
| 19-7945 |
Zacharias Abab Aguedo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence was insufficient to support Aguedo's conviction and his motions for judgment of acquittal should have been granted |
| 19-7917 |
Isaac Feldman v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
antisemitic-reference antisemitism appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-prosecution criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-jeopardy-clause jury-verdict prosecution prosecutorial-misconduct |
Where a jury returns a final verdict on a charge of conspiracy, finding a defendant guilty of only one of multiple charged offense objects, is the gov… |
| 19-7898 |
Richard C. Murphy v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review attorney-client attorney-client-relationship civil-procedure civil-rights counsel-ethics due-process judicial-discretion legal-ethics legal-representation procedural-integrity representation standing |
Did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals abuse their discretion by allowing counsel to continue representation after counsel documented his unwillingnes… |
| 19-7871 |
In Re Antonio Damarcus Woodson |
|
2020-03-04 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction civil-procedure-standing-jurisdiction-federal-rule civil-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment jurisdiction legal-standards procedural-due-process retroactive-law standing |
Whether the jurisdictional requirements under 28 USC §§ 1331, 1332, 1343, 1367, 2072, and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were met, and whether t… |
| 19-7839 |
Christopher Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deterrence due-process imprisonment plain-error-review policy-statement policy-statement-range sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Is a single-sentence explanation of 'I believe this addresses the issues of adequate deterrence and protection of the public' procedurally reasonable … |
| 19-7826 |
Marlon R. Miller v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure document-sealing due-process first-amendment judicial-transparency law-enforcement-misconduct public-access public-access-to-courts right-to-fair-trial sealed-records |
Whether the district court correctly sealed an entire category of information from public access, including preventing Mr. Miller from having meaningf… |
| 19-7803 |
Brandon Williams v. Brian B. Kemp, Governor of Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1986 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism negligence section-1986 standing |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit exceed its enumerated powers and violate basic principles of federalism |
| 19-7739 |
H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion jurisdiction legal-interpretation standing |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court dismissed the petitioner's claims without proper jurisdiction |
| 19-7740 |
Yolanda Bell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review case-dismissal civil-rights collateral-order disability disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-discretion judicial-process motion-denial reasonable-accommodation |
Did the Court of Appeals commit legal error and abuse their discretion when denying Petitioner's appeal of the district courts denial of her motions r… |
| 19-7748 |
Kevin Souffrant v. Kevin Kauffman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari circuit-split civil-rights class-action due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-question habeas-corpus judicial-conflict legal-standard standing supreme-court-review |
Whether petitioner should be granted certiorari, where his claim not only affects him, but also hundreds of others |
| 19-1052 |
Andre G. Dewberry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure guilty-plea self-representation sixth-amendment waiver |
Whether a guilty plea waives a challenge on appeal to the denial of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to represent himself |
| 19-7663 |
Ryan Douglas LaSalle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review categorical-analysis congressional-definition criminal-procedure federal-regulations guidelines guidelines-miscalculation plain-error regulatory-definition sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-categorical-analysis taylor-v-united-states |
Can a court of appeals successfully avoid undertaking plain error review of a Guidelines miscalculation by relying on a federal regulatory definition … |
| 19-7645 |
Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure decisional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts federal-rules gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 split-among-circuits standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a change in decisional law may constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifying relief under Rule 60(b)(6) |
| 19-7661 |
Redinel Dervishaj, aka Redi, aka Red v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
924(c)(3)(A) appellate-review crime-of-violence extortion federal-criminal-law force-clause hobbs-act physical-threat second-circuit title-18 title-18-924(c)(3)(a) |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals erred in determining that the underlying offense of Hobbs Act extortion, threatening physical violence in … |
| 19-7681 |
Howard Aron Washington, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-new-jersey guideline-departure procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rosales-mireles Rosales-Mireles-v-United-States sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the district court's methodology in imposing a substantial guideline departure was inconsistent with this Court's decision in Gall v. New Jers… |
| 19-7685 |
Dominic Lindsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-errors federal-rule-criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error plain-error-review precedent sentencing standard-of-review |
Does plain-error review under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) include factual errors? |
| 19-7671 |
Daquan Ossie Bradley v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law court-trial due-process judicial-review standard-of-review structural-error sullivan-v-louisiana trial-procedure |
Whether a court-trial verdict that is based on a constitutionally-deficient burden of proof is structural error under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 508 U.S. … |
| 19-7675 |
Alonzo Lamar Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus incarcerated incarcerated-petitioner plain-error pro-se pro-se-litigant section-2255-motion standing |
Whether the US Court of Appeals for the Third circuit improperly denied Petitioner's request for a Certificate of Appealability |
| 19-7680 |
Samuel Howard v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review capital-punishment constitutional-law criminal-procedure death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process hurst-v-florida judicial-precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-procedure sixth-amendment |
Whether appellate reweighing is constitutional after Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016) |
| 19-1011 |
Eric F. Kelly v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review court-martial court-of-appeals-for-the-armed-forces court-of-criminal-appeals courts-martial criminal-appeals due-process judicial-procedure jurisdiction military-court military-courts remand |
Whether a military Court of Criminal Appeals must review the results of a court martial anew when the court previously reviewed the case but its judgm… |
| 19-7647 |
William P. Castillo v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review apprendi apprendi-line capital-punishment capital-sentencing clemons-v-mississippi death-penalty jury-instructions mitigating-circumstances mitigating-evidence mitigation-evidence reweighing |
Should this Court overrule Clemons v. Mississippi |
| 19-7650 |
D. W. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families |
Washington |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-appointed-counsel due-process ex-parte-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct parental-rights record-on-appeal recusal termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the State violated the Due Process Clause by failing to provide a court-ordered domestic violence/anger management evaluation and treatment to… |
| 19-7640 |
Phillip Auston Carrier v. Billy Romero, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review congress-intent consent constitutional-law federal-appellate-court federal-prosecutor federal-prosecutor-consent gatekeeping-role gatekeeping-standard habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2255-motion prosecutorial-consent second-or-successive-petition second-petition section-2255 |
Whether the remedy by motion authorized by 28 U.S.C. §2255(h)(2) is rendered inadequate or ineffective |
| 19-7615 |
William E. Vukich v. Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection incarceration judicial-interpretation mistrial probation sentencing |
Whether the Double Jeopardy Clause prohibits multiple punishments for the same offense |
| 19-7622 |
Samuel Elliott v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-guidelines sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether a sentence imposed pursuant to the United States Sentencing Guidelines covering child pornography offenses, U.S.S.G. §§ 2G2.1 and 2G2.2, is su… |
| 19-997 |
Gary S. Williky v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-penalties discretion guilty-plea guilty-pleas guilty-verdicts judicial-discretion seventh-circuit whistleblower |
Did the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals err in determining that the Trial Court did not abuse its discretion by awarding 2x civil penalties against W… |
| 19-7598 |
Ramon Valencia-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split closer-review judicial-review kimbrough-discretion kimbrough-v-united-states policy-disagreement policy-statement sentencing-guidelines |
When conducting 'closer review' of a sentencing decision that was based on the district court's decision to vary from the United States Sentencing Gui… |
| 19-7585 |
Jerry Ellis, aka Jerry Leonard Ellis v. Noel Barlow-Hurst, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard post-conviction standard-of-review standing trial-procedure |
Whether the district court erred in denying the appellant's claim of ineffective assistance of first instance trial counsel |
| 19-7568 |
Theodore Michael Brewster v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-interpretation discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-circuit legal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of this Court on an important matter |
| 19-7575 |
Rashaun Scott Carter v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver controlled-substance controlled-substances criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining presentence-investigation sentencing |
Does an appellate waiver bar an appeal based upon a flawed, prejudicial presentence investigation report performed between the trial court's acceptanc… |
| 19-7512 |
Jose Luis Urias-Marquez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-interpretation rule-11 supervisory-powers united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-v-lee |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decision of the D.C. Circuit on an important matte… |
| 19-7470 |
Agustin Martinez-Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing criminal-sentencing,appellate-review,18-usc-3553(a federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Can appellate courts reweigh the sentencing factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) |
| 19-7480 |
David Paul Lynch v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error eleventh-circuit harmless-error hearsay hearsay-statements jury-trial precedent sixth-amendment weight-of-evidence |
Did the Eleventh Circuit violate this Court's precedent on harmless error |
| 19-7427 |
Rodolfo Perez-Jimenez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-7463 |
Terrance A. Burlison v. David R. Ellspermann, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Clerk of Court for Marion County, Florida |
Florida |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion legal-procedure sec-1988 statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Florida Court of Appeals for the Fifth District abused its discretion in awarding defendant attorney's fees pursuant to sec. 1988 |
| 19-7446 |
Enrique A. Echeverria-Benitez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-circuit illegal-reentry plain-error retribution sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the imposition of consecutive sentences for illegal reentry and revocation of supervised release was unreasonable and constituted reversible e… |
| 19-7365 |
Tyrone Terrance Roberts v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief standard-of-review |
Has the lower tribunal court denied Roberts due process and departed from the essential requirements of the law in denying him relief following his di… |
| 19-7385 |
Arthur Lee Kimbel v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirement criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure pro-se pro-se-claims right-to-counsel |
When an Appellant files an Appellate Brief raising Pro Se claims after appointed counsel submits an Anders Brief, is the reviewing appellate court con… |
| 19-903 |
Michael Ramon Ochoa v. Arthur Levine, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-conspiracy civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-order-doctrine collateral-orders constitutional-protection defamation standing wrongful-use-of-civil-proceedings |
Whether claims of wrongful use of civil proceedings, civil conspiracy, or defamation would be irreparably lost if this appeal is not heard |
| 19-915 |
Donald Henderson Scott, et ux. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-court jurisdiction jury-trial standing supreme-court |
Whether the United States Court of Appeal for the Eighth Circuit misapprehended its jurisdiction in a way that conflicts with decisions of the U.S. Su… |
| 19-7279 |
Charlotte Oliphant-Johns v. Good Deal Remodeling |
Pennsylvania |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-records court-system due-process jurisdiction legal-filing municipal-court procedural-error record-keeping standing |
What laws of Gwil Court jurisdiction were applied in this Municipal Court; why were the defendants barely questioned concerning my complaint; why did … |
| 19-7331 |
Lavorice Dondrell Cunningham v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion legal-standard pending-resolution remand sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
What is the appropriate standard for the determination of substantive reasonableness claim? |
| 19-7332 |
Brian Dean King, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-objection due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing |
Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, … |
| 19-888 |
Eric A. Longmire v. Warshaw Burstein Cohen Schlesinger & Kuh, LLP |
New York |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process employment-discrimination legal-malpractice motion-to-appeal prima-facie procedural-due-process standing sua-sponte |
Whether the State Appellate Division wrongfully denied Petitioner's Motion for Leave to Appeal |
| 19-7273 |
Pablo Rodriguez-Palomino v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-assault due-process essential-elements fourteenth-amendment jackson-v-virginia rational-trier-of-fact reasonable-doubt standard-of-review state-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the standard to be applied by state courts when a defendant claims that the evidence is insufficient to convict is whether any rational trier … |
| 19-7276 |
Ketut Pujayasa v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules due-process judicial-discretion prejudice prisoner prisoner-litigation prisoner-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-4a6 time-limitation timeliness |
Did the district court and appellate court err in concluding that the petitioner's Rule 4(a)(6) motion, which was sent on February 20, 2019, and recei… |
| 19-7293 |
Desmond Bowen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) appellate-review booker-v-united-states federal-sentencing gall-v-united-states judicial-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
What standard should appellate courts use to review claims of substantively unreasonable sentences under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)? |
| 19-7306 |
Dmitry Pronin v. Charles Wright, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights credibility district-court due-process legal-construction procedural-interpretation standing summary-judgment |
Whether the district court properly construed the legal argument for a party in a civil rights lawsuit, and whether the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals i… |
| 19-7282 |
John Anthony Arnold v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress ninth-circuit search-warrant standing warrantless-arrest |
Did the Virginia Supreme Court err in upholding petitioner's warrantless arrest? |
| 19-7286 |
Leah S. Caldwell v. Doris Downs, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit equal-protection federal-jurisdiction petition-for-certiorari pro-se standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in dismissing Petitioner's civil rights claims against Respondents for lack of standing and failure to state a clai… |
| 19-7257 |
Dillon Mvuri v. American Airlines, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-reasoning pro-se summary-judgement summary-judgment |
Where the district court issues a summary judgement without giving reasons on the record contrary to Rule 56 of Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and t… |
| 19-7258 |
Jamal Marquise Collins v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure holguin-hernandez judicial-review legal-standard objections remand sentencing timeliness timely-objection |
Whether parties to a criminal proceeding must make timely objections to the unreasonableness of a sentence? |
| 19-7264 |
Lazaro Zapata v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment. 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process standing takings appeals appellate-review case-review civil-rights court-decision criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation |
Whether the Illinois Appellate Court erred in denying petitioner's request for a new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel and due process … |
| 19-7231 |
Joshua Andrew Monroe v. Scott Lewis, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process fourth-circuit fourth-circuit-court-of-appeals habeas-corpus procedural-ruling statute-of-limitations |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in not issuing a certificate of appealability where petitioner demonstrated that jurist of reason could fi… |
| 19-861 |
Mark Shumski v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion prisoner-rights standard-of-review |
Is a prisoner entitled to a certificate of appealability (COA) on a claim for which other jurists have reached different conclusions from the district… |
| 19-7192 |
Keith Edward Walker v. Ronda Pash, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction federal-review finality-of-judgment habeas-corpus standing state-court-decision statute-of-limitations |
Does the reamme of 28 U.S.C. 2244(d) and (p) create ambiguity in 28 U.S.C. 2244(d)(1) regarding the one-year period of litigation |
| 19-7201 |
Casey Lee Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of other Circuits on an important matter |
| 19-7170 |
Dante Taylor v. New York |
New York |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent |
What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affectin… |
| 19-7182 |
Cirilo Mancilla Lopez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether claims of substantive unreasonableness must be preserved by specific objection? |
| 19-844 |
Sabrina Graham v. Thomas S. Wininger |
Indiana |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review bias due-process findings-and-conclusions fourteenth-amendment procedural-due-process quantum-meruit quantum-meruit-unjust-enrichment rule-52 substantial-rights unbiased-tribunal |
whether-graham's-rights-were-violated |
| 19-7167 |
Harshadkumar Nanjibhai Jadav v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-sufficiency first-degree-murder identity-of-defendant identity-of-perpetrator jury-instructions possession-of-weapon premeditation sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia unreasonably affirmed the Petitioner's conviction on the charge of First-Degree Murder |
| 19-7150 |
Michael J. Walton v. Jack Kowalski, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review child-witness criminal-conviction direct-appeal due-process false-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-appellate-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct witness-coaching |
Whether counsel was ineffective for failing to reveal indisputably false testimony and coaching to the 4-year-old child who gave the false testimony |
| 19-7159 |
Sir Giorgio Sanford Clardy v. Garth Gulick, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process service-of-process standing statute-of-limitations waiver |
Whether the appellate court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims due to lack of timely service of process and whether the district court abused… |
| 19-834 |
In Re Philippe Buhannic |
|
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process foreign-litigant judicial-bias legal-discrimination pro-se pro-se-litigant state-courts |
Whether the state courts have the right to refuse due process to a foreign pro-se-litigant |
| 19-7116 |
Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review standard-of-review |
Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? |
| 19-7119 |
Larry Bell v. Kevin Ransom, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rule-60b federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard slack-v-mcdaniel standing third-circuit |
whether-reasonable-jurist-could-debate-third-circuit-court-of-appeals-adoption |
| 19-7130 |
Fabio Morel v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-law circuit-court-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing judicial-precedent plea-agreement plea-bargaining precedent retroactivity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the lower court's decision is in conflict with Freeman v. United States, 564 U.S. 522 (2011) and Hughes v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1765 (201… |
| 19-823 |
Susan Pearsall v. Thomas C. Guernsey, DDS |
Ohio |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure consent constitutional-procedure court-intervention due-process judicial-modification legal-consent separation-of-powers settlement-agreement |
Whether it is unconstitutional for the Court to write, rewrite, modify, or add to a so-called settlement agreement without the consent of the parties … |
| 19-7105 |
Miguel Jilberto Vazquez-Chavarria v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion remand sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
whether-substantive-reasonableness-review-requires-or-permits-the-courts-of-appeals-to-reweigh-the-18-usc-3553a-factors |
| 19-7061 |
Charles Edward Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky burden-shifting clearly-erroneous-standard jury-selection peremptory-challenge prima-facie-case racial-discrimination standard-of-review |
What is the standard of appellate review applicable to an adverse first-step Batson determination? |
| 19-7071 |
Joseph A. Williams v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review armed-career-criminal-act certification criminal-law criminal-procedure judicial-certification sentencing serious-drug-offense state-convictions statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Armed Career Criminal Act's 'serious drug offense' definition is limited to only those state convictions that are the same or narrower tha… |
| 19-7059 |
John Kenneth Schiefer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion legal-reasoning plain-error procedural-error respect-for-law sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Did the district court plainly procedurally err when it selected and imposed sentence based on its desire to promote the defendant's respect for the l… |
| 19-7049 |
In Re Antwoyn Spencer |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance personal-liberty pro-se-petition punishment standing strickland-standard undue-delay |
Whether petitioner is being deprived of his civil rights due to undue delay in appellate ruling |
| 19-7056 |
Robert Keith Kinsey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure district-court judicial-objection objection preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure |
Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate 'reasonableness' objection in district court? |
| 19-7038 |
Angela Maxine Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-922 18-usc-924 3553-a-factors 3553a-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the above-Guidelines 84-month sentence ordered by the district court is substantively unreasonable under the § 3553(a) factors |
| 19-7044 |
Darmarcus Fisher v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-assault appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process fifth-circuit procedural-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the district court imposed a substantively unreasonable sentence and erred by imposing a 4-level enhancement for aggravated assault |
| 19-791 |
Anderson Law Offices, et al. v. Common Benefit Fee and Cost Committee |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
|
appeal-rights appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure common-benefit-fund court-review due-process equitable-relief federal-courts federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure judicial-discretion judicial-responsibilities standing waiver |
Whether federal courts can require waiver of appeal rights as a condition for receiving an award |
| 19-7009 |
Daniel Rosario-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-with-prejudice district-court judicial-authority jurisdiction prejudice procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a district court which had no jurisdiction over a case can dismiss it with prejudice |
| 19-6996 |
Myron L. Johnson v. Darren Settles, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review case-disposition civil-procedure constitutional-law court-disposition due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-error legal-procedure lower-court-decisions standard-of-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the lower courts err in their disposition of petitioner's case? |
| 19-781 |
Frank Condez v. Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, et al. |
Massachusetts |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-service constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech massachusetts-appeals-court petition-for-certiorari standing |
Does the Massachusetts Appeals Court decision constitute a forbidden intrusion of the petitioner's First-Amendment rights? |
| 19-6947 |
Reinaldo Rodriguez-Martinez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-instructions rico rico-conspiracy-statute rico-enterprise sufficiency-of-evidence united-states-v-turkette |
Whether a jury instruction that directs the jury that it does not need to find an existing de facto 'enterprise' in a RICO conspiracy case is proper |
| 19-6955 |
Shondell J. Paul v. New York |
New York |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-question due-process federal-constitutional-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent stare-decisis state-court state-court-precedent state-court-procedure |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment place an obligation on the New York Court of Appeals to address a federal constitutional question when its prior precede… |
| 19-6932 |
Dustin Larmon McDonald v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-objection reasonableness sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness united-states-v-haymond |
Must challenges to the procedural reasonableness of a sentence be preserved by a separate 'reasonableness' objection in district court? |
| 19-6935 |
Rickie James King v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari criminal-procedure district-court due-process fifth-circuit leniency-arguments preservation-of-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness remand sentencing sentencing-procedure united-states-v-haymond |
whether-challenges-to-procedural-reasonableness-of-sentence-must-be-preserved |
| 19-6936 |
Pedro Vigio-Aponte v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech rico standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the text of the RICO statute, this Court's case law, case law from other Courts of Appeal, the First Circuit's case law, and the importance of… |
| 19-6911 |
Father v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof due-process evidence evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment texas-constitution |
Does Article V, Section 6 of the Texas Constitution violate Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution when its distincti… |
| 19-6913 |
Neal Benjamin v. Jennifer Saad, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review booker-error constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error judicial-review lower-court-error sentencing sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Does the Petitioner have a Sixth Amendment Booker error? |
| 19-740 |
Kayla Butts, Individually and on Behalf of Her Daughter, A. F., a Minor v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-52a evidence-consideration expert-testimony fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-tort-claims-act medical-malpractice standard-of-care standard-of-review trial-court-deference |
Did the Appellate court violate Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 52(a) when it failed to consider all of the evidence before the trial court, inserted… |
| 19-6901 |
Alonso Barrera-Montes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure department-of-state due-process evidence evidence-admission hearsay hearsay-rule jurisdiction jury-trial |
Whether the court of appeals erred in upholding the admission of evidence that violated the hearsay rule and the defendant's confrontation rights |
| 19-6877 |
Christopher Rudolph Brown v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-error criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief res-judicata standing trial-counsel |
Whether the essential principles of res judicata were departed from by the lower courts in allowing the prosecution to relitigate issues that were pre… |
| 19-6881 |
April Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion parole probation reasonableness revocation sentencing supervised-release |
Did the district court impose a plainly unreasonable revocation sentence upon Ms. Torres? |
| 19-6882 |
Zackary Ikaika Bryton Thompson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-6825 |
Jorge Guerrero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure good-cause plain-error pretrial-motions rule-12 rule-52 suppression-motion |
Whether Rule 12's good-cause standard displaces the plain-error standard in Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) |
| 19-6838 |
Joshua Smith v. Sandra Butler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review caselaw federal-procedure guideline-range habeas-corpus incorrect-guideline-range mandatory-guidelines savings-clause sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Courts of Appeals have incorrectly interpreted the 'savings clause' found in 28 USC 2255(e) |
| 19-6828 |
Reginald Jerry Shaw v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review application-notes certificate-of-appealability commentary district-court-discretion ineffective-assistance legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Are the commentary and application notes in the Sentencing Guideline manual authoritative or left to the District Court's discretion? |
| 19-6794 |
Lakesha Smith v. St. Joseph's/Candler Health System, Inc. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process employment-law judicial-interpretation statute-of-limitations statutory-definition statutory-interpretation time-bar wrongful-termination |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the United States District Court's decision of a time-bar verdict on the issue of 'willf… |
| 19-6777 |
Iris Lamar Anderson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief prisoner-rights standing state-court-procedure |
Was Jae Trois SuPR EMME Loves \\WPLEMENTED Penenites Tor Fiowak's Supiual Sygrem THAT LowTRADICTS He U.S. ConsTtTuT/ONS 1% LE ann \\N™ AMENDMENT RENTS… |
| 19-6791 |
Bryan Lamon Burnett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-law criminal-sentencing felon-in-possession firearm-possession firearms sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-sentencing-guidelines |
Should this court grant certiorari to resolve the conflict between the circuit courts of appeal in the application of United States Sentencing Guideli… |
| 19-674 |
James L. Martin v. National General Assurance Company |
Delaware |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal standing state-court |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause guarantee a civil litigant, in a state court, an appellate justice who did not oversee the same issue… |
| 19-666 |
Jenn-Ching Luo v. Lowe's Home Centers, LLC, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure dismissal due-process judicial-discretion opportunity-to-cure rule-compliance |
Whether Pennsylvania Superior Court can dismiss Petitioner's appeal based on disagreement over the number of argument points, non-compliance with inap… |
| 19-6746 |
Michael Anthony Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection fair-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparity sentencing-review unwarranted-sentence waiver-of-rights |
Does a waiver of direct appeal rights and collateral rights excepting claims premised on ineffective assistance of counsel violate a defendant's due-p… |
| 19-6747 |
Josue Emmanuel Martinez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plain-error-review procedural-default sentencing |
Whether allocution error is subject to plain error review in the absence of objection? |
| 19-6660 |
Ronald Fay Schermerhorn, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause court-of-appeals due-process ex-post-facto fair-trial habeas-corpus statutory-law |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6713 |
Derek Tyler Horton v. Sam Cochran |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus jurisdiction procedural-error writ-of-certiorari |
Is there a remedy when the Habeas corpus proceeding fails to protect a citizen from Double Jeopardy violation because of an incorrect procedural rulin… |
| 19-6737 |
Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdin… |
| 19-6710 |
Thomas Franklin Bowling v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review case-mootness due-process eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mootness munsingwear-doctrine parole parole-board vacatur |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's unopposed motion to vacate its published opinion after respondent's unilateral action rendere… |
| 19-6700 |
Abid Naseer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisement appellate-review district-court right-to-counsel self-representation sixth-amendment standard-of-review waiver |
Whether the Second Circuit Court of Appeals applied an incorrect standard in concluding that Petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his Sixth A… |
| 19-6668 |
Andrew J. J. Wolf, et al. v. Idaho Board of Correction, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure completeness-doctrine federal-rules-of-evidence motion-to-stay ninth-circuit rule-106 summary-judgment trial-record |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in failing to rule on whether the district court abused its discretion in denying Petitioner's Motion to Stay the Second Sum… |
| 19-6674 |
Margarita Mora v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-conflict circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure rule-11 supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit conflicts with the decisions of other Circuits on an important matter… |
| 19-6656 |
Fernando Quintela-Galindo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapter-7-policy chapter-7-policy-statements criminal-procedure due-process presumption-of-reasonableness revocation-sentence sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a presumption of reasonableness should be applied to a revocation sentence produced by Chapter 7 policy statements |
| 19-6613 |
Jaime Rodriguez, et al. v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review counsel-performance deliberate-misrepresentations due-process factual-predicates false-positions false-positions-and-deliberate-misrepresentations ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandate-rule newly-raised-claims sixth-amendment |
Whether the mandate rule bars consideration and adjudication of newly raised claims under a Sixth Amendment ineffective assistance of counsel claim |
| 19-6617 |
Melissa Morton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure-waiver due-process inter-circuit-conflict intra-circuit-conflict jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-procedure right-relinquishment right-to-appeal waiver |
Whether a defendant waives his right to challenge a jury instruction on appeal if he proposed the instruction below, even if the record contains no ev… |
| 19-6634 |
Kathryn Woodin Markle v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-production burden-of-proof criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process evidence government-burden pre-sentence-report sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-objection |
Does the defendant bear the burden of production to rebut information found in a pre-sentence report after objecting to that information, or instead, … |
| 19-610 |
Mushkin, Inc. v. Anza Technology, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-15c-relation-back clear-error conduct-transaction-occurrence federal-circuit federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure notice relation-back standard-of-review |
Whether the appropriate standard of review for a 'relation back' determination under Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(c) should be |
| 19-6591 |
In Re Kenneth Uncapher |
|
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury jury-bias jury-misconduct mistrial newly-discovered-evidence victim |
Was the Petitioner denied a fair trial? |
| 19-6551 |
Neil Timothy Aho v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure discovery guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel obstruction-of-justice plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing-guidelines withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether the appellate court erred in not finding that the district court abused its discretion by denying Petitioner's motion to withdraw his guilty p… |
| 19-6497 |
David Morillo-Cruz v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the sentence imposed by the Court was reasonable? |
| 19-6501 |
Alvin Felicianosoto v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defense-autonomy due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel McCoy-challenge mccoy-v-louisiana remand right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred on direct review in failing to remand the case to the district court when a challenge under McCoy v.… |
| 19-6509 |
William Gaudet v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2423(a) appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-sentencing district-court evidence-exclusion evidence-rule-403 federal-rules-of-evidence federal-sentencing-guidelines judgment-of-acquittal motion-in-limine prior-testimony sentencing standard-of-review whether-the-appeals-court-erred-in-upholding-the-d |
Whether the appeals court erred in upholding the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion in limine |
| 19-6490 |
Ali Al-Maqablh v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review capta capta-compliance child-abuse-reporting civil-immunity civil-rights criminal-liability due-process federal-funding immunity immunity-statute kentucky-law misdemeanor-prosecution |
Whether Kentucky's prosecution of individuals who report suspected child abuse violates the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) i… |
| 19-579 |
William Boateng v. BP, P.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court federal-rules motion-to-dismiss rule-12(b)(6) rule-12(d) summary-judgment |
Can a Court of Appeals treat a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss as a converted motion for summary judgment under Rule 12(d) when the district court its… |
| 19-582 |
Sara Ann Edmondson v. Lilliston Ford Inc., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-formation due-process federal-procedure fraud fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-admission judicial-admissions oscanyan-v-arms-co standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Third Circuit and District Court are acting in opposition to long standing, controlling law |
| 19-6447 |
Charles Donelson v. Darrise Hardy, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure-review-standard due-process hearing-requirement standing summary-judgment appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-standard ninth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation zipursky |
Whether the Power applied in this Case by Asserted Judicial Authority Was Contrary to Law and other Circuits in light of the whole Record |
| 19-6415 |
Jose Eleuterio Nava v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court due-process judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-6422 |
Calvin Dunell Burns v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights competency constitutional-violations due-process evidence legal-procedure mental-competency mental-health standing trial-counsel trial-procedure |
Why did the First District Court of Appeals, State of Florida, not rule fairly on the merits of the issues in the Petitioner's Direct Appeal regarding… |
| 19-6424 |
Anthony Darnell Stokes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review conviction court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-statute obstruction-of-justice sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the court of appeals misapplied 18 U.S.C.S. § 1512(c)(1) |
| 19-6431 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fact-question guidelines plain-error role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a district court's failure to apply a minor or mitigating role adjustment under the Sentencing Guideli… |
| 19-6439 |
Arthur Lopez v. MUFG Union Bank, N.A., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions deception due-process fraud jurisdiction legal-procedure pro-se religious-beliefs standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims alleging fraud, deception, and due process violations despite Petitioner's status as … |
| 19-6412 |
Dennis Jones v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conflict-with-precedent constitutional-interpretation due-process essential-elements-of-crime federal-jurisdiction federal-question judicial-review precedent-conflict right-to-counsel standing state-court-decision supreme-court supreme-court-procedure |
Whether the state court decided a federal question in a way that conflicts with this Court's precedent on the right to counsel and due process |
| 19-6383 |
Nelli Kesoyan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeals federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Court of Appeals adopt an erroneous interpretation of U.S.S.G. § 251.3(b)(3)? |
| 19-6372 |
Kelby Germaine Parson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-offense firearms mandatory-minimum statutory-interpretation statutory-vagueness vagueness |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) is unconstitutionally vague |
| 19-6384 |
Dieugrand Jacques v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-evidence hearsay-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review post-conviction-relief right-to-appeal sex-offender-registration wrongful-conviction |
Why thousands of men and women like myself in this great country should continue to be kept illegally in prison only because a lawyer presented a fake… |
| 19-6349 |
Jarvas Jovon Brinkley v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Michigan |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper michigan-law sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Does the decisions below conflict with the decisions of other U.S. circuit courts of appeals and state appellate courts, and misapply this court's dec… |
| 19-6351 |
Geoffrey Elkington v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice prejudice-standard state-court-deference trial-counsel |
Did the Third Circuit err in deferring to the State Court finding that Petitioner was not prejudiced by Petitioner's trial attorney failing to enter i… |
| 19-531 |
Ofra Levin v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., et al. |
New York |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review case-merits civil-procedure due-process injury judicial-review legal-standing merits procedural-timing standing |
Whether a party who lacks standing at the commencement of the action can obtain, or be granted, standing, four and a half years after the action start… |
| 19-6330 |
Vicki Corona v. Mariyam Gasparyan |
California |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-trial first-amendment judicial-misconduct legal-remedy malice petition-clause remedy standing |
Where actors of a Superior Court, including the Judge, defense attorney, and clerks, violate the rule of law as announced in the Due Process Clause, a… |
| 19-6345 |
William N. Lucy v. Mary Cooks |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review bankruptcy-proceedings certiorari-petition civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process eviction habeas-corpus judicial-error post-conviction-relief property-rights standing trial-court-discretion |
Whether the Mobile County Circuit Court abused its discretion in granting an eviction order while the petitioner was in bankruptcy |
| 19-6310 |
Marilis Yaneth Velasquez Perez v. Jose Candido Diaz Palencia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abbott-v-abbott appellate-review child-abduction civil-code custody eleventh-circuit guatemalan-civil-code guatemalan-law hague-convention hague-convention-child-abduction international-child-abduction international-custody ne-exeat-rights |
Did the lower courts err in determining that retention of the child was wrongful under the Hague Convention despite Guatemalan law giving custody to t… |
| 19-6312 |
Bryan Timothyleenard Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus standard-of-review appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard procedural-error standing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability |
| 19-516 |
Nolan Espinda, Director, Hawaii Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Royce C. Gouveia |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
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appellate-deference appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review custody federal-district-court-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus Hawai'i-sovereign-right manifest-necessity mistrial-declaration rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgments |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in concluding that the Rooker-Feldman doctrine is categorically not applicable to § 2241 petitions? |
| 19-499 |
Henry Posada v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appeals-court-error appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure district-court-error evidence government-evidence government-surveillance healthcare-billing loss-amount loss-calculation medical-fraud patient-records sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeals erred in determining that the district court did not clearly err in accepting the government's assertion that Mr. Posada … |
| 19-6288 |
Ron Christopher Whitley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing drug-case drug-offense drug-offenses judicial-discretion proportionality-review sentencing-departure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the 156-month sentence is greater than necessary to comply with the purposes of sentencing under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) |
| 19-6277 |
Mario Ruvalcaba-Garcia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split daubert daubert-standard evidentiary-reliability expert-testimony harmless-error judicial-gatekeeping make-initial-daubert-decision relevance-and-reliability remand remand-for-new-trial standard-of-review |
When a trial court errs by failing to exercise its 'gatekeeping' role of determining whether expert testimony is relevant and reliable under Daubert v… |
| 19-486 |
Donnett M. Taffe, Personal Representative of the Estate of Steven Jerold Thompson, Deceased v. Gerald E. Wengert, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights due-process federal-claims findings-of-fact interlocutory-appeal interlocutory-ruling material-facts pendent-jurisdiction qualified-immunity qualified-immunity,civil-rights,civil-procedure,ap standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether an appellate court may review disputed material facts and substitute its own findings when deciding qualified immunity |
| 19-6252 |
Edinson Herrera Ramirez v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review biased-jury criminal-procedure discretion ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jury-selection legal-standard maryland-court-of-appeals peremptory-challenge peremptory-strike prejudice |
Whether the Maryland court erred in holding that petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel but failed to prove prejudice |
| 19-6258 |
In Re Tiran R. Casteel |
|
2019-10-11 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review competency district-court due-process eighth-circuit false-premise legal-competency mental-health restoration retroactive-determination trial trial-procedure |
Was the Petitioner restored prior to the November 2009 trial? |
| 19-6263 |
Carlos Velasquez v. Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-hearing appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Were the constitutional claims barred by Rooker-Feldman doctrine? |
| 19-6239 |
Randell Glen Laws v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-precedent jurisdictional-challenge merits-review procedural-due-process supervisory-power |
Whether a federal appellate court necessitates the exercise of the Supreme Court's supervisory power when it decides that a petitioner/appellant has n… |
| 19-6224 |
Philong Huynh v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General |
District of Columbia |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights congressional-statutes court-procedure discretionary-function discretionary-function-exception discretionary-standard due-process government-oversight investigation-power judicial-review legal-interpretation |
Whether the government oversight function, including the power of investigation, is subject to the discretionary function exception under congressiona… |
| 19-6232 |
Jason James Neiheisel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-conviction criminal-procedure demeanor due-process jury-verdict prosecutorial-questioning reversible-error substantive-evidence sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit, on review for sufficiency of evidence, can affirm a conviction citing the verdict itself; on the supposition the jury co… |
| 19-468 |
Keesha Elayne Frye v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process indictment indictment-redaction jury jury-deliberation jury-instructions meaningful-review redaction standard-of-review |
Whether the criminal defendant was denied meaningful appellate review when the district court destroyed the only copy of a redacted indictment used by… |
| 19-463 |
Wilbur-Ellis Company LLC v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review comity comity-federalism comity-federalism-state-judicial-functions federal-court federal-court-override federalism interlocutory-orders judicial-function sealing-order state-court state-court-sealing state-court-sealing-order state-law-interpretation |
Whether a district court may override the order of a state court sealing a court filing necessary to resolve a motion in the state court, by compellin… |
| 19-456 |
John Buncich v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review chapman-error credibility credibility-assessment criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standard harmless-error judicial-discretion rule-404(b) |
Where there is a finding of Chapman error, does the appellate court err by relying on its own assessment of the credibility of the defendant's testimo… |
| 19-6177 |
Valerie Flores v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court government-admission government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing seventh-circuit supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine |
Whether the Seventh Circuit errantly disregarded the government's failure to brief a waiver argument and disallowed relief for a supervised release co… |
| 19-6185 |
Aaron Lee Smiley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights coercion constitutional-rights due-process forfeiture home-forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement standing |
Does a plea agreement need to pass constitutional muster before it waives a person's right to challenge on appeal the forfeiture of his or her home? |
| 19-6171 |
Jorge Sanchez-Rodriguez v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review child-interview criminal-procedure due-process evidence insufficient-evidence judicial-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence trial-court-error witness-testimony |
Did the state appellate court and the Louisiana Supreme Court err in denying petitioner's appeal because the evidence presented at trial was insuffici… |
| 19-450 |
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., et al. v. Perrigo Company, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review budinich-v-becton-dickinson compensatory-damages enhanced-damages exceptional-case jury-verdict merits-ruling patent-infringement punitive-enhancement reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing |
Whether the punitive enhancement under 35 U.S.C. § 284 is collateral to, and therefore not a merits ruling necessary for final judgment |
| 19-6123 |
Castor Quintaires Gonzales v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review court-of-appeals due-process fifth-amendment mandate-recall presumption-of-innocence structural-error |
Does the Fifth Amendment compel a court of appeals to remedy its inadvertent affirmance of unrecognized structural error that was apparent from the re… |
| 19-6151 |
Ahmed Ali v. Tammy Foss, Acting Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights due-process habeas-corpus jury-instruction jury-instructions third-party-culpability trial-court |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability on his claim that he was denied his right to present a defense |
| 19-6125 |
Francis G. Hernandez v. Ronald Davis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review child-abuse criminal-procedure diminished-capacity habeas-corpus head-injuries ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness ninth-circuit prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Was counsel's failure to investigate and present a diminished capacity defense prejudicial under Strickland v. Washington? |
| 19-428 |
Ryan Courtade v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-2252 18-usc-2256 appellate-review child-pornography child-pornography-statute circuit-split due-process lascivious-exhibition standard-of-review statutory-interpretation subjective-intent |
When reviewing a district court's conclusion that an image depicts a 'lascivious exhibition' under 18 U.S.C. 2256(2)(A), must the appellate court revi… |
| 19-6098 |
Pablo Enrique Rosado-Sanchez v. Puerto Rico Department of Education, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-rights appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-misconduct promesa-act standing supreme-court-review |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals erred in staying the appeal and requiring the appellant to seek relief from the automatic stay in the Title… |
| 19-6099 |
Khalil Stafford v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plain-error time-barred |
Whether the courts erred in failing to grant the defendant a partial evidentiary hearing on challenges to the fourth and fifth convictions, particular… |
| 19-6110 |
Abimael Ayala-Gonzalez v. New York |
New York |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review brady-violation constitutional-duty criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification federal-claim ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-representation-standard performance-prejudice-test prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment state-appellate-court strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Does a state appellate court have a duty to resolve a federal claim of ineffective assistance of counsel claim under the Federal performance/prejudice… |
| 19-6112 |
In Re Larry Pouncy |
|
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
all-writs-act appellate-review breach-of-fiduciary-duty civil-rights due-process fiduciary-duty fraud intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress legal-malpractice mandamus-remedy pro-se-plaintiff rooker-feldman-doctrine stay-on-state-judgment writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's state law claims against the defendants for legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary dut… |
| 19-6113 |
Jose Armando Bazan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
GVR |
Relisted (4)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review cocaine-conspiracy criminal-appeal criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing downward-adjustment fact-question guidelines plain-error plain-error-review role-adjustment sentencing sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a defendant's claim for a minor or mitigating role downward adjustment under the Sentencing Guidelines… |
| 19-6119 |
Masnik Sainmelus v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court firearm-possession firearms guideline-enhancement guideline-range sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g.-2k2.1 |
Whether the district court erred in increasing the appellant's guideline range by finding the offense involved 8-24 firearms under U.S.S.G. 2K2.1(b)(1… |
| 19-6070 |
Malcom McClenon v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-circuit habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is Recier DUE. To fr ConvicTioN 1 Devoid OF THE RUD MENTARY DEmAwos of FAIR Pacegouns ? |
| 19-6079 |
Guillermo Vega-Botello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-procedure limited-remand plain-error remand sentencing statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 19-401 |
Lamont Dejuan Higgs v. Warden Wilson |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
|
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appeal appellate-review federal-procedure habeas-corpus saving-clause sentencing sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation |
Whether the saving clause of 28 U.S.C. § 2255(e) allows defendants to seek relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 on the grounds that a subsequent statutory in… |
| 19-6053 |
Diosme Fernandez Hano v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-rulings indictment judicial-precedent jury-instructions statute-of-limitations united-states-code witness-testimony |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that the indictment was returned within the limitation period under 18 U.S.C. § 3297 |
| 19-6067 |
Francisco Suarez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict codefendant-comparison criminal-procedure-error eighth-circuit intra-circuit-conflict legal-standard public-safety sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-darden united-states-v-smith |
Whether the circuit and district court committed constitutional procedural error by failing to weigh the mandated public safety concern, violating the… |
| 19-6073 |
Glen T. Jones, Jr. v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus harmless-error judicial-interpretation plain-error structural-error |
Whether the state court's harmlessness determination is subject to habeas corpus review under Brecht v. Abrahamson |
| 19-6035 |
Luis R. Espinal-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review bail bail-hearing criminal-procedure detention-review due-process federal-jurisdiction presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention rebuttal statutory-presumption statutory-presumptions |
Whether bail should have been granted in this case as the petitioner rebutted the statutory presumptions |
| 19-6036 |
Arturo Eduardo Dominguez-Calderon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review courts-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process holguin-hernandez-v-united-states judicial-discretion remand sentencing-factors sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to 'reweigh the sentencing factors' |
| 19-6001 |
Gregory Leroy Packer v. Mark Capozza, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-duty counsel-representation court-docket court-procedure diligence diligence-appeal due-process legal-diligence pennsylvania-statute prejudicial-delay related-case-law standing statutory-interpretation unprecedent-case |
Were the appellate courts' rulings unprecedented for this case? |
| 19-6002 |
Nicole Rena McCrea v. Mark S. Devan, et al. |
Maryland |
2019-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-conflict legal-sufficiency maryland-law maryland-rule standing statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Is the Maryland Court of Special Appeals' March 13, 2019 unpublished Opinion and Memorandum affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court of Charles Cou… |
| 19-6016 |
Devon Chance v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-20 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c)(3) 18-usc-924c3 abrogation appellate-review case-law-abrogation circuit-court-decision criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ovalles-v-united-states section-2255-motion statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review united-states-v-davis |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion should be vacated due to reliance on an abrogated opinion |
| 19-5972 |
Dimitri Bernard Robinson v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights federal-courts jurisdiction pen-register petition privacy probable-cause supreme-court trap-and-trace writ-of-certiorari |
Was petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to privacy and protection violated without probable cause, when law enforcement obtained an unreasonable order… |
| 19-5991 |
Howard Lee White v. Romeo Aranas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judgment lower-court-decisions qualified-immunity standard-of-review standing summary-judgment |
Did the lower courts err in granting summary judgment to the defendant? |
| 19-5992 |
Demond Chatman v. Douglas Demoura |
First Circuit |
2019-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability competency competency-to-stand-trial due-process first-circuit first-circuit-court-of-appeals genuine-issue right-to-trial standing |
Did the First Circuit Court of Appeals err in refusing to grant certificate of appealability where, contrary to their stated denial, petitioner presen… |
| 19-5962 |
David Tjader v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court government-waiver plain-error plain-error-review sentencing supervised-release vagueness waiver waiver-doctrine |
Whether the Seventh Circuit errantly disregarded the government's waiver of a waiver argument and disallowed relief for a supervised release condition… |
| 19-5982 |
Alcadio Caballero De La Torre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing data-analysis due-process judicial-discretion reasonableness-review sentencing-commission sentencing-data sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness statistical-analysis |
When, if ever, Sentencing Commission statistical data may be used to evaluate the reasonableness of a defendant's sentence |
| 19-5948 |
Maria Margarita Valdez-Araiza v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review conflicting-evidence criminal-procedure-review evidence evidentiary-error harmless-error harmless-error-review judicial-precedent jury-factfinding sixth-amendment standard-of-review witness-credibility |
Is the Ninth Circuit's decision consistent with this Court's precedents? |
| 19-5922 |
Pedro Munoz, aka Pedro Munoz Ruiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference district-court federal-courts-of-appeals federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-5904 |
Travis Dennis v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-verdict sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether Mr. Dennis' conviction was obtained with insufficient evidence |
| 19-5892 |
Charles Titus, et ux. v. Mohammed Alaeddin, et al. |
Illinois |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias pro-se pro-se-parties procedural-due-process standing trial-proceedings |
Whether the trial court's actions amounted to a violation of the Due Process Clause |
| 19-311 |
Al Cannon, Sheriff, Charleston County, South Carolina v. Broderick William Seay, Jr. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
appellate-review deference double-jeopardy fact-finding federal-habeas manifest-necessity mistrial strict-scrutiny trial-court-deference trial-court-discretion |
Whether the required strict scrutiny applied to the legal determination of manifest necessity constrains the deference accorded a trial court's fact-f… |
| 19-5846 |
Joshua Eric Townley v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-principles criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-discretion new-trial sua-sponte supremacy-clause trial-court trial-procedure |
whether a trial judge violates the Supremacy and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the United States Constitution |
| 19-303 |
Arthur Rodriguez Bautista v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial habeas-corpus impartial-judge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the trial judge's repeated improper comments throughout the trial demonstrated his bias in favor of the prosecution and denied Petitioner due … |
| 19-5821 |
Robert Earl Robinson v. Arizona, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure cross-examination discovery due-process exculpatory-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state failed to disclose exculpatory evidence prior to trial |
| 19-5836 |
Dennis Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-ruling ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-error plea-bargaining prejudice reasonable-performance reasonable-probability sixth-amendment standard-of-review strickland-v-washington trial-fairness trial-strategy |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to properly investigate a… |
| 19-5800 |
Darren Denson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct witness-testimony |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment was violated when the petitioner was denied access to legal materials and s… |
| 19-5801 |
Emory Chiles v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Chiles' motion to suppress evidence? |
| 19-5802 |
Travis Wade Matthews v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing due-process identification jackson-standard jackson-v-virginia mccoy-v-louisiana victim-identification witness-identification |
whether-dna-testing-is-client-choice |
| 19-5804 |
Jesse Lewis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute remand statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-davis vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Whether the appellate court's reliance on the unconstitutionally vague definition of 'crime of violence' in 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(B) requires remand f… |
| 19-5813 |
Alejandro Plaza-Montecillo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-16 aggravated-robbery appellate-review crime-of-violence criminal-law federal-criminal-code federal-criminal-law sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation texas-law violent-crime |
Whether the Texas offense of aggravated robbery constitutes a 'crime of violence' under 18 U.S.C. §16? |
| 19-5824 |
William Alan Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-circuit appellate-review certificate-of-appealability deadly-weapon due-process habeas-corpus habeas-relief habeas-relief-review ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default |
Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit err in its denial of a certificate of appealability to review the U.S. District Court's denial of … |
| 19-280 |
Judy Long v. Alameda Unified School District |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure jury-trial motion-dismissal standard-of-review standing summary-judgment |
What is the appropriate standard of review when a trial court improperly grants a motion for summary judgment dismissing the right to a jury trial? |
| 19-5775 |
Richard James Soldan v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
anders-brief anders-procedure appellate-counsel appellate-review court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process first-tier-review indigent-defendant michigan-court-of-appeals michigan-procedure plea-bargaining right-to-counsel |
Whether the trial court may refuse to appoint substitute appellate counsel to an indigent defendant convicted on his plea who seeks access to first-ti… |
| 19-5791 |
Marcus Jackson v. Vance Laughlin, Warden, et al. |
Georgia |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-review discretionary-relief discretionary-review error-of-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel irrational-strategy legal-sufficiency sixth-amendment state-appeals sufficiency-of-evidence thirteenth-juror thirteenth-juror-review |
Did the Georgia courts err by refusing to remedy appellate counsel's professionally deficient, and prejudicial, waiver of a claim for discretionary re… |
| 19-5767 |
Virgil Lee Bailey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-standard plain-error plain-error-review plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency sullivan-v-louisiana |
Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review |
| 19-5741 |
Jose Marin Saldana-Reyes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-procedure sentencing-standard |
Whether an appellate court may affirm as procedurally reasonable a sentence imposed where the record contains no indication the sentencing judge consi… |
| 19-5742 |
Robert Gene Rand v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion factual-findings ninth-circuit plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-application sentencing-reductions standard-of-review |
Whether a circuit court errs by affirming a district court's decision regarding the applicability of the United States Sentencing Guidelines based on … |
| 19-5760 |
Aly Toure v. New York |
New York |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure mental-health standing supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-rights |
Did the appellate division violate clearly established federal supreme court ratified law? |
| 19-5728 |
Kristin L. Hardy v. Kelly Santoro, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel performance-prong plea-negotiations sentencing-exposure state-court |
Whether a federal appellate court fails to provide legitimate federal habeas review |
| 19-253 |
Straight Path IP Group, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-08-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-circuit fifth-amendment patent patent-infringement patent-law procedural-due-process summary-judgment |
Whether Rule 36(e) of the Federal Circuit's Rules of Procedure violates the Fifth Amendment by authorizing panels of the Federal Circuit to affirm, wi… |
| 19-5719 |
Robert Keith Ray v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2019-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey boyde-standard boyde-v-california capital-case due-process jury jury-instructions sixth-amendment |
Whether the Court should revisit the 'reasonable likelihood' test adopted in Boyde v. California and instead return to the previous standard where app… |
| 19-238 |
In Re Hotze Health Wellness Center International One, LLC, et al. |
|
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review article-iii-standing civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction en-banc-review proposition-65 remand-order removal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction supplemental-jurisdiction |
Whether the remand order constitutes an appealable abuse of discretion for failing to reach or resolve the jurisdictional issues raised below |
| 19-239 |
Larry Benzon, Warden v. Troy Michael Kell |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
appeal appeals appellate-review capital-case capital-punishment collateral-order-doctrine district-court federalism habeas-corpus rhines-v-weber stay |
Whether a district court's order staying and abeying a capital prisoner's habeas corpus petition under Rhines v. Weber, 544 U.S. 269 (2005), is immedi… |
| 19-5664 |
Curtis Lee Sheppard, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-motivation criminal-procedure Does the application of the 'enterprise profits' t double-jeopardy due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction pecuniary-gain rico-enterprise standing standing-issue statutory-interpretation vcar-statute |
Whether the trial court lacked the authority to set aside the conviction and dismiss the cause |
| 19-5681 |
Raphael Person, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-courts harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether, when a district court imposes a sentence based on several factors, one of which is improper, the court of appeals should affirm the sentence … |
| 19-5701 |
Daniel Brian Masson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review child-abuse child-pornography child-sexual-performance constitutional-rights due-process falsified-transcripts motion-to-suppress search-warrant |
Whether the petitioner's conviction for violating Florida Statute 827.071 (5) (a) is illegal due to lack of evidence, falsified transcripts, and viola… |
| 19-5674 |
Ed Teague, II v. Regent Financial Group, Inc., et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure failure-to-state-a-claim failure-to-state-claim judicial-interpretation legal-principles motion-to-dismiss pleading-requirements standard-of-review |
Whether the court of appeal's decision below contradicts existing legal principles when evaluating a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim up… |
| 19-5655 |
Chadwick N. Barner v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fair-trial illinois-supreme-court-rule-431(b) impartial-jury jury-selection post-conviction-relief sixth-amendment voir-dire |
Whether the trial court violated the defendant's constitutional rights by failing to properly administer the jury selection process under Illinois Sup… |
| 19-226 |
Noel L. Smith v. Diane Smith Carusos |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-jurisdiction due-process judicial-procedure legal-ethics procedural-due-process remand remand-order removal standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does a U.S. District Court have subject-matter jurisdiction to grant a motion that admittedly has never been served? |
| 19-5634 |
Daniel Marquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-adjustment minor-role ninth-circuit sentencing sentencing-adjustment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-rule-10 ussg-3b1.2 |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred in affirming the lower court's decision to deny a minor-role adjustment |
| 19-208 |
Mark A. Beckham v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-review |
When is it constitutionally permissible for an appellate court to conclude that a district court's refusal to instruct the jury as to two elements of … |
| 19-213 |
Charles Fischer v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review character-evidence constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-law due-process propensity-evidence propensity-inference statutory-interpretation texas-court-of-appeals texas-statute |
Whether the Due Process Clause is offended by a statute that authorizes criminal convictions on the basis of character conformity and propensity |
| 19-203 |
David Greenberg v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court-review cooperation-agreement criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing reasonableness reasonableness-of-sentence reasonableness-standard second-circuit sentence-disparity sentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines unwarranted-disparity |
Did the Second Circuit err in affirming Petitioner David Greenberg's sentence without addressing the sentencing court's failure to consider the proper… |
| 19-206 |
In Re Melba L. Ford |
|
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts appellate-relief appellate-review appointment-of-counsel court-access due-process en-banc-circuit fraud judicial-procedure meaningful-access-to-courts separation-of-powers substantive-due-process unrepresented-litigants unsigned-orders |
When Circuits issue unsigned orders denying appellate relief to unrepresented litigants, which orders address no issue raised and provide no explanati… |
| 19-5610 |
Richard Felton v. Colette M. Goguen, Superintendent, North Central Correctional Institution |
First Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure counsel-interference court-closure cronic-v-united-states due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus presley-v-georgia public-trial sixth-amendment standing waller-v-georgia |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit contravened this Court's holding in Terrell v. Morris, 493 U.S. 1 (1989) (per curiam)… |
| 19-5613 |
Luis Samayoa-Castillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion federal-sentencing-guidelines gall-v-united-states harmless-error molina-martinez-v-united-states rosales-mireles-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-error |
Whether the district court's reliance on a clearly erroneous fact in selecting the defendant's sentence was harmless error |
| 19-5590 |
Levar Lee Anthony Spence v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process equal-protection federal-courts legal-document petition pro-se standing supreme-court writ-of-certiorari |
Was your petitioner, being without any assistance of an attorney denied due process and equal protection of the law when the federal courts refused de… |
| 19-5563 |
Ian Alexander Bowline v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions timeliness waiver |
Whether an appellate court can review a defense, objection, or request that is not timely made under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12 for plain e… |
| 19-5537 |
Benjamin Escobedo v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-provisions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-defects-indictment due-process indictment jurisdiction motion-to-close motion-to-quash sixth-amendment trial-court |
Did the Trial Court err when it overruled Appellants Motion to Quash the Amended Indictment? |
| 19-5544 |
Overille Denton Thompson, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review barker-default constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process fundamental-right lower-courts presumption-against-waiver procedural-default speedy-trial texas-court-of-criminal-appeals |
Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in refusing to grant Mr. Thompson's petition for discretionary review, and therefore, sanction the lower c… |
| 19-5471 |
J. A. M. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment ambiguous-request appellate-division appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel |
Did the Appellate Division err by ignoring the fact that petitioner-defendant was denied his Fifth Amendment right to have counsel present during inte… |
| 19-5448 |
Antolin Torres Abonza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-review |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 19-5459 |
Edward Lee Carter v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial impartial-judge judicial-impartiality judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether a criminal defendant is constitutionally entitled to a fair trial from an impartial judge who is not corrupt to preside and rule over his tria… |
| 19-5434 |
Juan Fletcher Gordillo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-requirements constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit first-impression judicial-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether this Court should review the decision of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether the decision in this case of apparent firs… |
| 19-5436 |
Martin Araiza-Jacobo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error deliberate-ignorance harmless-error jury-instruction jury-instructions legal-sufficiency standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the standard for assessing the harmlessness of an erroneously submitted deliberate-ignorance instruction turns only on the legal sufficiency o… |
| 19-5425 |
Damien Riley v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process residual-clause sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness united-states-code united-states-v-booker |
Whether the district court's sentence is substantively unreasonable in reliance on the career offender guidelines residual clause |
| 19-149 |
Fort Bend Mechanical, Limited, et al. v. Gil Ramirez Group, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-review federal-rules-civil-procedure fifth-circuit plain-error rule-50 sufficiency-challenge sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fifth Circuit failed to follow its own precedent when declining to conduct a plain error review of the sufficiency challenge due to incons… |
| 19-5411 |
Kirk Patrick Keshler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-basis harmless-error judicial-review plain-error plea-bargaining plea-sufficiency standard-of-review sullivan-v-louisiana |
Whether the sufficiency of a factual basis for a defendant's plea should be subject to plain error review, or whether, under Sullivan v. Louisiana, 50… |
| 19-5412 |
Jean Claude Phillip McKenzie v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) 18-usc-3553a 6th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court history-and-characteristics judicial-discretion nature-and-circumstances sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance |
Whether the district court's upward variance in sentencing was proper |
| 19-5421 |
Charles Earl Davis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process factual-error harmless-error judicial-standard legal-interpretation plain-error plain-error-review procedural-review standard-of-review |
Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? |
| 19-138 |
First State Community Action Agency v. Tamra N. Robinson |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure invited-error jury-instructions plain-error trial-court waiver |
Whether a party that first raises an issue on appeal has per se waived plain error review |
| 19-5302 |
Bryant Keith Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment damages due-process free-speech habeas-corpus prosecutorial-misconduct standing |
Whether the State of Florida can impose a life sentence on an individual despite a jury's recommendation of a lesser sentence |
| 19-5304 |
Michael Paul Puzey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
38-usc-7253 appellate-review article-iii civil-procedure constitutional-error due-process judicial-procedure jurisdictional-standard legal-interpretation procedural-review standing statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Appellate Court committed a Manifest error by Failing to adhere to its obligations and duty under Article III, subsection 2, and 38 U.S.C.… |
| 19-5329 |
James Lester Williams, Jr. v. Jamai F. Samuels |
Florida |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment access-to-courts appellate-review due-process equal-protection family-law-dispute petition-for-redress pro-se pro-se-litigant right-to-petition |
Whether Florida's Appellate Court(s) denial of Petitioner's timely and duly filed Petition's for Appeal, without any judicial reasoning or analysis to… |
| 19-5332 |
Todd J. Tibbs v. Randy Grounds, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa appellate-review factual-determination factual-determinations federal-court-review federal-habeas habeas-corpus prejudice-standard some-evidence standard state-court-deference |
Does federal habeas law allow the application of a 'some evidence' standard in upholding state court factual determinations? |
| 19-5311 |
Ivaylo Dodev v. Bank of New York Mellon |
Arizona |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review arizona-court-of-appeals arizona-rules-of-civil-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure,eviction,dismissal,arizona-rules-o criminal-law due-process eviction eviction-proceedings federal-criminal-procedure hobbs-act judicial-discretion rule-41 second-amendment united-states-v-davis voluntary-dismissal Whether Mr. Burke's § 924(c) conviction is invalid |
Whether the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One abused its discretion by not ruling on the applicability of Rule 41(a)(1) of the Arizona Rules of C… |
| 19-5314 |
Aurora Barrera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-petition 28-usc-1291 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jurisdiction statutory-interpretation |
Whether a court of appeals has jurisdiction over an appeal of the denial of a § 2255 Petition pursuant to § 1291 when the District Court fails to adju… |
| 19-5317 |
Alonzo Vernon v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial harmless-error jones-v-stinson sixth-amendment |
Whether the Second Circuit's decision in the instant case created a conflict with the Court's decision in Chapman, supra? |
| 19-5319 |
William J. Barnes Jr. v. New York |
New York |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review competency constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insanity-defense mental-capacity mental-competency structural-error trial-procedure |
Did the county court deprive the petitioner of his due process and constitutional right to a full and fair impartial determination of his mental capac… |
| 19-112 |
S. Bruce Hiran, et al. v. Jelinis, LLC |
Texas |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
|
appellate-court appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment supreme-court supreme-court-of-texas temporary-injunction |
Whether Petitioners' Constitutional Rights of Due Process and Equal Protection of Laws are violated |
| 19-5290 |
Ryan Keith Mason v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review attorney-performance credibility credibility-determination criminal-procedure deference deference-standard deference-to-trial-court evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-sufficiency plea-bargaining plea-offer standard-of-review |
Whether a court of appeals erred in finding that deference to a trial court's factual finding on an attorney's provision of a favorable plea offer was… |
| 19-105 |
Joseph A. Caramadre v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus hill-v-lockhart ineffective-assistance section-2255 strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Should a Writ of Habeas Corpus issue |
| 19-5264 |
Joseph Hyungseop Shim v. Michael Sexton, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus standing |
Whether Petitioner has made a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right to authorize the granting of a certificate of appealability un… |
| 19-5269 |
Reginald Christopher Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-review jurisdiction objection reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 19-101 |
Imperium IP Holdings (Cayman), Ltd. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
appellate-review burden-of-proof credibility-determinations credibility-of-witnesses expert-testimony jury-trial jury-trial-rights jury-verdict patent-infringement patent-invalidity patent-validity seventh-amendment standard-of-review |
Whether an appellate court may reverse a jury verdict based on its own view that expert testimony was credible, 'unrebutted,' and 'uncontradicted,' or… |
| 19-5215 |
Lowrell Neal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion appellate-review circuit-court clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure habeas-corpus law-of-the-case manifest-injustice procedural-error sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit err by holding the district court properly applied the law-of-the-case to an issue presented in 2255 motion when prior appellate… |
| 19-5222 |
James Arthur Meeks v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure-bar-rule civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-misconduct post-conviction-relief post-conviction-review procedural-bar standing trial-counsel |
Whether the procedural bar statute was properly applied |
| 19-5255 |
Frank Lobacz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-error per-se-ineffectiveness procedural-default second-circuit section-2255 sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit erred in affirming the lower court's denial of Petitioner's 28 U.S.C. § 2255 petition alleging ine… |
| 19-5234 |
Stephen P. Dowdney, Jr. v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
anders-procedure anders-v-california appellate-review direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel equal-protection mccoy-v-court-of-appeals |
Does Washington state use the Anders v. California procedure to circumvent a meaningful direct (first) appeal, effective assistance of counsel, due pr… |
| 19-96 |
Lincoln Rymer v. Robert Lemaster, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-misconduct sovereign-immunity standing void-judgments |
Whether lower court conduct and inadequate appellate review warrant a GVR with instructions |
| 19-5182 |
Geovanny Antonio Loyola-Villegas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review empirical-basis federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure plain-error presumption-of-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 19-78 |
John Doe, aka Cheyenne Moody Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
appellate-review conflict-among-courts constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof trial-court |
Whether a trial court in criminal proceedings must, upon request from the jury, explain the meaning of the 'beyond a reasonable doubt' standard to the… |
| 19-5185 |
William Eric Taylor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure denial-of-certificate due-process factual-predicates fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-premises legal-reasoning procedural-due-process standing uncontested-application |
Should the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a certificate of appealability based the uncontested application submitted by the petitioner? |
| 19-5154 |
James Wardell Quary v. N. C. English, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2241 28-usc-2255 appellate-review circuit-precedent circuit-split detention-challenge erroneous-precedent federal-criminal-defendants federal-criminal-procedure federal-statute habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief |
May a federal prisoner file a petition for habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 to raise arguments foreclosed by erroneous circuit precedent |
| 19-5162 |
Frederick Johnson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretionary-review plain-error plainly-unreasonable post-revocation-sentence sentencing sentencing-standard supervised-release |
What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 19-5137 |
Albert Duval Gray v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-law fifth-amendment revocation-sentence sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's revocation sentence violated the Fifth and Sixth Amendments |
| 19-5138 |
Jesus Alonso Gonzalez Gonzalez, aka Jesus Gonzalez, aka Jesus Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Alonzo Gonzalez, aka Roberto Soto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error procedural-review rule-51b sentencing |
Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(… |
| 19-50 |
John DeRaffele v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals fair-housing-act federal-district-court federal-question judicial-procedure judicial-proceedings jury-verdict pro-se pro-se-litigant pro-se-litigation standing tenant-standing writ-of-certiorari |
Does a Pro Se litigant have the right to request a Writ of Certiorari when the Court of Appeals has upheld a lower Court ruling on an important Federa… |
| 19-5125 |
Francisco Gallegos-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553a 3553(a)-factors abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion preservation-of-error procedural-error sentencing sentencing-recommendation statutory-factors |
Does urging a sentencing recommendation lower than that ultimately imposed, and grounded in the statutory factors in 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a), suffice to p… |
| 19-5126 |
Jesus M. Garcia v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel wiretap wiretap-evidence |
Did the district court and appeals court err in denying appellant relief on ineffective assistance of trial counsel due to counsel's failing to object… |
| 19-5099 |
James Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review constitutional-rights district-court-of-appeal due-process equal-protection florida-supreme-court fraud per-curiam-affirmance supreme-court-jurisdiction unelaborated-affirmance |
Whether the Florida practice and rule that do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the district courts of appeal issu… |
| 19-5077 |
Carlton P. Cabot v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error criminal-procedure factual-determination factual-findings olano plain-error rule-52(b) sentencing-variance standard-of-review |
Does plain error review apply to unobjected to factual determinations? |
| 19-5079 |
Kenneth Blackwell v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review evidence issue-preservation judicial-discretion legal-sufficiency legal-theory prior-bad-acts prior-difficulties-evidence standard-of-review state-argument trial-court trial-court-discretion trial-procedure waiver |
Whether the Georgia Court of Appeals erred when it held that the trial court admitted Petitioner's sexual acts in Ohio as prior difficulties evidence … |
| 19-5082 |
Julisa Tolentino v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari circuit-court criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review pending-case published-opinion reconsideration remand standing united-states-v-leal vacate |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and the remand for reconsideration in the event that the defendant in the forth… |
| 19-5045 |
Donald Lee Hathorn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-devices fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervised-release warrantless-search |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's requirement for Mr. Hathorn to submit his com… |
| 19-5071 |
Erwin Burley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion eleventh-circuit judicial-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervisory-power upward-variance |
Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory power and grant review because the Eleventh Circuit has permitted an upward variance sentence almos… |
| 19-5022 |
Brian K. Banks v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
404(b)-evidence appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-circuit jury-trial legal-error louisiana-supreme-court prosecutorial-misconduct standard-of-review |
Did the Louisiana Supreme Court err in allowing the Fifth Circuit to contradict its own prior rulings by overruling the District Court's decision to n… |
| 19-5026 |
Melvin Lewis Andrews v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court crime-of-violence criminal-law guidelines johnson-precedent johnson-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervisory-powers |
Should this Court exercise its supervisory powers where a circuit court of appeals continues to allow trial courts to apply 'crime of violence' analys… |
| 19-5010 |
Andrew Nelson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-924(c) appellate-review continuance criminal-procedure due-process fed-r-crim-p-52a federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure harmless-error judicial-error prejudice right-to-counsel sentencing substantial-rights trial-continuance vagueness-doctrine |
Where the district court erroneously premises its denial of a meritorious, unopposed motion for continuance of the trial on a mistaken belief that the… |
| 18-9791 |
Luis David Moreno-Pena v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion leniency preservation-of-error sentencing-argument sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-review |
Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence rooted in a court's failure to address arguments for leniency must be preserved by specific obj… |
| 18-9828 |
Dylan Magluilo v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflicting-decisions constitutional-law due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-proceedings judicial-review public-interest reasonable-doubt |
Did Louisiana Courts err in denying Dylan Magluilo right to a fair trial and subsequent review when rejecting claims involving, Conflicting Decisions … |
| 18-9829 |
Herve Wilmore, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeal appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment grand-jury-clause judicial-review |
Did the Court of Appeals affirm a Constructive Amendment, which requires reversal per se? |
| 18-1588 |
Norma L. Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
|
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-fees civil-rights district-court-award due-process federal-rules-of-procedure federal-rules-procedure fee-award insurance judicial-bias judicial-discretion litigation-conduct sanctions seventh-circuit state-insurance-law state-law unreasonable-litigation-conduct |
Where the district court awarded fees to Petitioner under state insurance law for Respondent's unreasonable litigation conduct, did the Seventh Circui… |
| 18A1362 |
Marshall Leon Watkins v. Nurse Jones, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court final-order interlocutory-appeal jurisdiction |
Whether a district court's failure to rule on all claims against a defendant renders the order non-final and non-appealable |
| 18-9776 |
Irineo Ponce-Recendiz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-procedure legal-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing |
Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(… |
| 18-9797 |
Mark Anthony Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review procedural-due-process right-of-appeal standing |
Was the petitioner improperly denied his right of appeal? |
| 18-9799 |
Benito Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion jury-instruction jury-instructions reasonable-doubt standard-of-proof |
Should certiorari be granted to find that, while a district court need not define reasonable doubt, if it does so, it cannot employ a definition that … |
| 18A1358 |
Michael Bornemann v. Benjamin Paul Kekona, et ux. |
Hawaii |
2019-06-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-1254 appellate-review federal-jurisdiction state-supreme-court supreme-court-rule writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a state supreme court's rejection of a writ of certiorari application can be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court under federal jurisdiction |
| 18-1574 |
William Henry Starrett v. Department of Defense, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
12(b)(6) appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process factual-allegations federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-civil-procedure motion-to-dismiss patent pleading pleading-standards standard-of-review standing takings technology-law |
Whether a complaint can survive a motion to dismiss when its factual allegations and claims involve one or more technologies, or capabilities of combi… |
| 18-9769 |
Ishmael Wahid v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process equitable-relief preliminary-injunction remand standard-of-review standing |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in not applying the correct standard for granting a preliminary injunction |
| 18-9740 |
Myron Gregory Jessie v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission judicial-error life-imprisonment prior-misconduct resentencing sentencing |
Was the evidence insufficient to convict defendant of first-degree murder and also to support the sentence of life imprisonment, and did the resentenc… |
| 18-1560 |
Richard Leland Neal v. B. Marc Neal, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
|
amended-complaint appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-rules motion-to-dismiss ninth-circuit pleadings rule-12(b)(6) standing |
Whether the Arizona District Court and the Ninth Circuit created a split by holding that defendants timely responded to Plaintiff's amended complaint … |
| 18A1344 |
Saquawn Harris v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-06-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
accomplice-liability aiding-and-abetting appellate-review criminal-law jury-instructions mens-rea |
Whether an appellate court may affirm a criminal conviction based on a novel theory of accomplice liability not presented to the jury or argued by the… |
| 18-9705 |
Leonard Moore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review certificate-of-appealability crime-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether 18 U.S.C. §1959(a)(3) qualifies as a crime of violence for the purpose of §924(c)(3)(A) element clause |
| 18-9729 |
Odell Lameche Overby v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 3553(c) appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-obligation due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning nonfrivolous-arguments sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision |
| 18-9692 |
Jody Lanardo White v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error reasonableness-of-sentence sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review |
Whether challenges to the reasonableness of a sentence must be preserved by specific objection? |
| 18-1544 |
Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County |
Washington |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights court-appointed-guardian due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment guardianship predeprivation-rights professional-guardians property-interest property-rights state-action sua-sponte |
Whether a court-appointed professional guardian has a property interest in the business expectation of continued fees, and a pre-deprivation right to … |
| 18-9666 |
Jose Hernandez v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourteenth-amendment prejudice-standard prosecutorial-disclosure prosecutorial-misconduct witness-impeachment |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated |
| 18-9641 |
Clifford Brigham v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-maximum substantive-reasonableness |
Whether imposition of the statutory maximum, 60-month term was substantively unreasonable |
| 18-9608 |
Trinidad Jesus Garcia v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process judicial-interpretation plain-error procedural-error sentencing standard-of-review |
Does the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision conflict with decisions of the Supreme Court and was the decision incorrect when it stated that Garc… |
| 18-9611 |
Nicholas D. Weir v. United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-analysis de-novo-review factual-allegation frivolous frivolous-claim frivolous-claims judicial-discretion legal-standard standing sua-sponte sua-sponte-dismissal |
How does the lower courts rigorously determine if a factual allegation is baseless or frivolous when there is no argument in fact or law to dispute th… |
| 18-9595 |
Mike Du Trieu v. Michael Martel, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure procedural-bar state-court state-court-error |
Whether a federal court reviewing a state habeas decision must determine whether the state court erred in its application of a procedural bar when the… |
| 18-9597 |
Jose Berrum, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure district-court fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
May This Court Grant Certificate Of Appealability Or Overturn Conviction Where The Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Sanctioned District Court's Misappli… |
| 18-9600 |
Patricia Diane Smith Sledge v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence-rules evidentiary-ruling federal-rules-of-evidence procedural-error sufficiency-of-evidence summary-evidence witness-tampering |
Did the district court prejudicially err when admitting Exhibit 1 as a summary pursuant to Fed Rules of Evidence, rule 1006? |
| 18A1285 |
Jason Edward Rheinstein v. Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
28-usc-1447d appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review circuit-split federal-jurisdiction remand-order |
Whether a federal court of appeals has jurisdiction to review an entire remand order under 28 U.S.C. §1447(d) or only a specific portion of that order |
| 18-9577 |
Jose Pena v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion opportunity-to-appeal procedural-remedy relief-from-judgment rule-60(b) standing |
Should this court grant certiorari to determine whether federal civil rule 60(b) may be used to restore the opportunity to appeal? |
| 18-9589 |
Nicholas Bradley Gilbert v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-07 |
GVR |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-penalties criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion felon-possession interstate-commerce sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review requires or permits the courts of appeals to 'substantively second guess' the district court and/or to 'rewe… |
| 18A1266 |
Straight Path IP Group, LLC v. Apple Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review certiorari federal-circuit jurisdictional-issue patent-law time-extension |
Whether the Federal Circuit's panel and en banc decisions in a patent-related dispute between Straight Path IP Group and technology companies raise si… |
| 18-9538 |
Mark Anthony Head v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-claim constitutional-claims due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-process merits procedural-error procedural-errors rule-60b standing |
Whether the court of appeals erred in failing to construe the appellant's motion under Rule 60(b) |
| 18-1507 |
Augustin Zambrano v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-court appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificates-of-appealability coa-standard court-discretion due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review judicial-standard procedural-ruling standard-of-review |
Should this Court grant certiorari to make explicit that in ruling on a request for certificates of appealability, an appellate court must apply the a… |
| 18-9451 |
Denzel Pittman v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process illinois-law judicial-mandate juvenile-justice mental-health petition-for-leave-to-appeal second-amendment self-regulation standing supreme-court takings |
Whether the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess firearms for self-defense outside the home |
| 18-9453 |
Vincent Pisciotta v. D. J. Harmon, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review buck-v-davis due-process due-process,equal-protection,habeas-corpus,buck-v- equal-protection federal-prisoners fifth-circuit fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoners |
Did the Fifth Circuit Court of appeals err when it denied Mr. Pisciotta's appeal in violation of The Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct… |
| 18-9474 |
Irving Madden v. Michael Melvin, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions self-defense sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision is consistent with Strickland v. Washington |
| 18-9489 |
Aaron J. Bressi v. John Gembic, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
amendment appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-process legal-claims procedural-rules remand standing supervisory-power writ-of-certiorari |
Why the Honorable United States District Court ordered the case closed without granting a 30-day order to amend the complaint |
| 18-9459 |
Trinidad Nanez-Rivera v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-common-law mitigating-circumstances sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness tenth-circuit within-guideline-sentences within-range-sentence |
Have the length of within-guideline sentences become effectively unreviewable in practice, and is Mr. Nanez-Rivera's sentence near the top of the rang… |
| 18-9471 |
Joseph John Viola v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review collateral-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto jurisdiction retroactivity self-representation state-supreme-court |
Whether the order promulgating the 1992 amendments to Rule 32 constituted violations of guarantees against ex post facto law and due process under the… |
| 18-1476 |
Randy Lee Carney v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alternative-sentence alternative-sentencing appellate-review career-offender circuit-split collateral-consequences criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion guidelines harmless-error judicial-discretion judicial-error legal-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-error united-states-v-vonn |
When sentencing defendants, some district courts announce that they would impose the same length of imprisonment even if their conclusions of law and … |
| 18-1471 |
Christopher Hall v. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
|
anti-fraud appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law rule-50 securities securities-exchange-act securities-exchange-act-of-1934 securities-fraud standing |
Whether an appellate court has authority to consider challenges to issues of law raised in a pre-verdict Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 50(a) motion … |
| 18-9423 |
Ayanna Angle v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky constitutional-procedure equal-protection harmless-error judicial-review jury-selection peremptory-challenges peremptory-strikes prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination |
Whether a court of appeals should grant a new trial when it finds that the district court failed to complete all three steps of the Batson analysis |
| 18-9424 |
Lamar Eady, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 appellate-review criminal-law due-process federal-criminal-law federal-statute felon-in-possession knowingly legal-elements mens-rea possession rehaif-v-united-states second-amendment status statutory-interpretation |
Does the 'knowingly' provision of 18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(2) apply to both the possession and status elements of a 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime? |
| 18-9385 |
Cargil Nicholson v. Rollin Cook, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certification-of-appeal criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel trial-counsel |
Whether the Connecticut Supreme Court erred by denying the petitioner certification to appeal from the Appellate Court? |
| 18-9401 |
Daniel H. Jones v. Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure clearly-erroneous-findings injunctive-relief judicial-discretion jurisdictional-review legal-standards procedural-error sovereign-immunity wrong-legal-standards |
Did the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in allowing the District Court to abuse its discretion |
| 18-9408 |
Freddie J. Hennington v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure criminal-procedure dismissal due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion legal-review procedural-error sentencing standing |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by dismissing Mr. Hennington's appeal without considering the merits of his arguments |
| 18-9376 |
Charles A. Davis v. United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure court-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-defect jurisdictional-defects legal-standing lower-courts procedural-error standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the lower courts abused their discretion by their failure to address the jurisdictional defects that deprive them of subject-matter-jurisdicti… |
| 18-9382 |
Joshua Wofford v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-standard chapman-v-california constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-construction harmless-error prosecutorial-evidence standard-of-review |
Whether the federal court of appeals failed to effectively apply the Chapman v. California harmless-error standard |
| 18-9345 |
Billy Gene Drake v. Les Parish, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-provisions court-of-appeals due-process findings findings-of-fact judicial-review lower-court lower-court-decisions procedural-rights standing |
Was the petitioner's procedural due process violated by the U.S. Court of Appeals decision to adopt the lower court's findings? |
| 18-9331 |
Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appeals appellate-review capital-counsel capital-habeas civil-rights collateral-review counsel-substitution due-process habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings mandamus right-to-counsel statutory-interpretation statutory-right |
Whether the Court of Appeals failed to apply the existing basis of (a) Potential, (b) Pendent, (c) 28 U.S.C.S. § 1651(a) review by Mandamus, (d) 28 US… |
| 18-9336 |
Saul Elias Camilo v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-review district-court due-process fair-administration-of-justice ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining section-2255 sentencing-guidelines |
Where a plea deal has opposing clauses, is such confusion sufficient to reach the bar for appellate review in a §2255 process when ineffective-assista… |
| 18-9287 |
Carole L. Scheib v. James Rozberil |
Pennsylvania |
2019-05-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte federal-question fifth-amendment foreclosure property-law real-property statute-of-limitations |
Whether an appellate court must apply established state rules and laws pertaining to real-property, statute-of-limitations, due-process, but continue … |
| 18-9299 |
Frankie Karen Washington v. Deborah Johnson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review apprendi apprendi-v-new-jersey circuit-split constitutional-review harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-error sixth-amendment statutory-maximum |
Whether Apprendi error at sentencing is harmless based on the entire record or only whether the sentence exceeded the statutory maximum |
| 18-9300 |
Devon Waters, aka Devon Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review career-offender crime-of-violence criminal-defendant-appeal-waiver criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-distribution-offense sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Does a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a within guidelines sentence bar appellate review where the district court improperly senten… |
| 18-9283 |
Constance F. Russell v. First Resolution Investment Corporation |
Alabama |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-judicial-act-of-1925 independent-action ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-act no-opinion-ruling rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 standing state-and-federal-constitutional-rights |
Did the Alabama Supreme Court violate petitioner pro se' State and Federal Constitutional Rights of due-process, when they refuse to adjudicate a case… |
| 18-9228 |
David D. Ewing v. Ronda Pash, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review claims-barred due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-admission merits-consideration procedural-default self-defense state-court-appellate state-court-proceedings |
Whether a petitioner's claims are barred from federal review when the underlying claims have been considered on the merits during state court appellat… |
| 18-9233 |
Michael Perales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process plain-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error? |
| 18-9187 |
Jason Brooks v. Matthew Hanson, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
adequate-appellate-review appellate-court appellate-review due-process exhaustion-of-state-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-court federal-court-jurisdiction habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition judicial-precedent prior-judgment procedural-grounds state-procedural-rules |
Whether a federal appellate court can substantially change its prior judgment to intentionally sabotage a petitioner being able to file a subsequent h… |
| 18-9203 |
Leslie E. Thomas v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Union County |
Third Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appeals-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-authority court-hierarchy district-court due-process federal-courts jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction procedural-standing standing state-court |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit have jurisdiction? |
| 18-9161 |
Robert Leonard Wood v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review beckles-precedent beckles-v-united-states criminal-law johnson johnson-v-united-states mandatory-guidelines residual-clause sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation vagueness void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Court should resolve the question left open by Beckles v. United States, 137 S. Ct. 886 (2017), that continues to divide the courts of app… |
| 18-9164 |
Antonio Muro, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-06 |
GVR |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 18-9122 |
Don Nell Hawkins v. Patricia A. Gaughan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2244 access-to-courts appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights denial-of-access due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus heck-doctrine heck-v-humphrey judicial-procedure section-2255 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction successive-2255-motion |
Whether the doctrine of Heck v. Humphrey applies to denial of access to court claims? |
| 18-9136 |
J.T., the Father v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-cases dependency-cases due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest indigent-population parental-rights |
Whether the Florida practice and rule that do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the District Court of Appeal issue… |
| 18-9089 |
Itoffee Gayle v. Home Box Office, Inc., et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure copyright-infringement due-process fair-use federal-jurisdiction first-amendment intellectual-property motion-to-dismiss second-circuit standing |
Whether the plaintiff's intellectual property was improperly featured in the defendant's (HBO) series, Vinyl |
| 18-9091 |
Antwayne Tremayne Lowry v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability |
| 18-9079 |
Steven Dedual, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternate-sentences appellate-review district-court guideline-range harmless-error judicial-discretion sentencing-discretion sentencing-enhancement sentencing-procedure unsupported-alternate-sentences unsupported-claims |
Can a district court that has erroneously applied a sentencing enhancement shield itself from appellate review by claiming, without providing specific… |
| 18-1370 |
Joanna Burke, et vir v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review assignment clear-error due-process fifth-circuit impartial-tribunal judicial-bias judicial-error law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine lender-income-fraud manifest-injustice nominee published-opinion |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly applied the well-established exception to the law-of-the-case doctrine for appellate deci… |
| 18-1363 |
David G. Morton v. Bank of America, N.A., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-standing due-process fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court misprision standing standing-issue summary-judgment tila tila-violation truth-in-lending-act |
Whether the lower court erred in granting summary judgment to the respondents despite their documented violation of the Truth in Lending Act, their de… |
| 18-9037 |
Rolander Brown v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act |
Whether the 'good faith exception' to the exclusionary rule should apply to court orders obtained pursuant to the Federal Stored Communications Act |
| 18-9048 |
Brian Boykins v. Robert Napel, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing federal-court right-to-counsel standard-of-review standing trial-court-record |
Whether a federal court must grant an evidentiary hearing and findings, contrary to Townsend v. Sain, 372 U.S. 293 (1963) |
| 18-9026 |
Arrez Meliton-Salto v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guidelines-range molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error prejudice record-silence sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the defendant may rely on the district court's error alone to show prejudice under plain error review when the record is silent as to what the… |
| 18-1353 |
Kevin McCabe, et al. v. Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
american-pipe american-pipe-doctrine appeal appellate-review civil-procedure class-action class-action-tolling class-certification due-process legal-tolling precedent procedural-rules procedural-tolling sanctions standing statute-of-limitations |
Whether class-action statute-of-limitations tolling under American Pipe & Constr. Co. v. Utah should continue until a district court's denial of class… |
| 18-1355 |
Edward Kramer v. Antonio Vitti, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights factual-dispute jury-trial malicious-prosecution material-dispute material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury determination of the material disputed facts in his case was violated when the Court of App… |
| 18-9006 |
Donald Ray Boles v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review apprendi-rule apprendi-v-new-jersey constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-fact-finding judicial-precedent prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-enhancement sentencing-enhancements sixth-amendment |
Whether the holding of Almendarez-Torres v. United States should be reconsidered |
| 18-9010 |
Joel Augutuk Mayokok v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-error re-sentencing sentence-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness unsupported-enhancement |
Did the District Court's decision at re-sentencing to re-impose the same 240-month sentence it initially imposed, where the Court had erred in its ini… |
| 18-9020 |
Michael Marshall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-appeal federal-courts federal-jurisdiction fourth-circuit guilty-plea jurisdictional-grounds plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the writ should issue so that this Court may decide whether Petitioner's guilty plea was valid |
| 18-8985 |
Michael Johnson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split eighth-circuit extraordinary-circumstances extraordinary-variance gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion major-departure minor-departure sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sentencing-variances standard-of-review |
Whether the Eighth Circuit's test that 'extraordinary variances do not require extraordinary circumstances' conflicts with this Court's mandate 'that … |
| 18-8996 |
Zack Zafer Dyab v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amount-of-loss appellate-review court-discretion criminal-sentencing illegal-sentence judicial-discretion legal-error loss-calculation plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-limitation statutory-limitations |
Does the miscalculation of the amount of loss as applied to the sentencing guidelines represent an illegal sentence, and plain error that the Court sh… |
| 18-8974 |
Stanley Bruce Roberson v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence scientific-evidence scientific-reliability statistical-extrapolation statistical-sampling unvalidated-methods |
Does the unvalidated method of statistical extrapolation constitute scientifically reliable evidence? |
| 18-8887 |
Miriam Soler v. Capital One Auto Finance |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-interpretation courts-of-appeal due-process ex-post-facto ex-post-facto-clause federal-rules-of-bankruptcy-procedure original-jurisdiction rule-of-law |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals infringed the ex-post-facto-clause, depriving Petitioner's right of remedy sustaining no due-process at … |
| 18-8919 |
In Re Tatyana Evgenievna Drevaleva |
|
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-order due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-review mandamus procedural-due-process standing |
Does any Court have a legal right to issue a dispositive Order without a detailed explanation about why this decision was reached? |
| 18-8892 |
Carlos Hernandez Machin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-vagueness criminal-law criminal-statute due-process mandatory-minimum residual-clause samuel-johnson sessions-v-dimaya statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent vagueness |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability is in conflict with this Court's precedent when reasonable jurists are current… |
| 18-8865 |
Marvin Lopez-Aguilar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict collateral-attack collateral-challenge conviction criminal-procedure district-court forfeiture government-enforcement government-forfeiture habeas-corpus waiver |
Does the government forfeit its right to enforce a defendant's waiver of a collateral challenge to his conviction by failing to raise the waiver issue… |
| 18-8872 |
In Re Samuel Lewis Surles |
|
2019-04-17 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation judicial-interpretation sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner was denied his unwaivable constitutional right of due process of law when the Michigan Supreme Court failed to rule on the merits o… |
| 18-8879 |
Olusola Arojojoye v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-jurisdiction jurisdiction restitution sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Does 18 USC §§3664(o) and USC §§3742 give the district court jurisdiction to review a sentence which the restitution was calculated in violation of th… |
| 18-8840 |
Frizzell Carrell Woodson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act impartiality judicial-discretion judicial-review jurisdictional-threshold sovereign-immunity standing tort-claims |
Whether the invoked appellate court adjudicative jurisdiction should acknowledge the particularism of any trial court judge's non-judicial palpable ac… |
| 18-8846 |
Silvio Lopez Cuellar v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-appeal sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
Does a defendant's plea agreement waiver of the statutory right of a sentencing appeal preclude appellate review of the sentence even where the distri… |
| 18-8855 |
Eric A. Hicks v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure guidelines molina-martinez molina-martinez-standard molina-martinez-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard procedural-default sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the court of appeals' decision conflicts with this Court's decision in Molina-Martinez v. United States, 136 S. Ct. 1338 (2016), in concluding… |
| 18-8820 |
Carman L. Deck v. Richard Jennings, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability death-penalty district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion procedural-standard reasonable-jurists standard-of-review |
Did Mr. Deck present grounds for relief as to which reasonable jurists could differ concerning the correctness of the district court's conclusion, thu… |
| 18-8834 |
José Amaya-Vasquez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion prior-bad-acts reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether the Court erred by considering the prior bad acts in the determination of the appropriate sentence? |
| 18-1303 |
Sonja Colbert v. Cleveland Mitchell |
California |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
|
appeals appellate-review bad-faith civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process filing-fees housing-authority judicial-procedure jury-trial landlord-tenant lower-court rent-control section-8-housing standing |
Whether a single court of appeals justice can dismiss an appeal after the appellant has shown that all notices of appeal were timely filed and fees pa… |
| 18-1295 |
Dale De Steno, et al. v. Kelly Services, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-issue constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial precedent seventh-amendment sixth-circuit standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred by denying the Petitioners' request for a jury trial pursuant to the Seventh Am… |
| 18-8804 |
Carlos Antonio Raymond v. Martin Joseph Roy, et al. |
Texas |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion manifest-injustice plea-bargain standing trial-procedure waiver waiver-consent |
Did the District (Trial) Court err in Allowing trial to proceed without first obtaining a written WAIVER consent from Petitioner/Plaintiff? |
| 18-8766 |
Christopher Lee Price v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review bucklew-standard civil-rights due-process evidence lethal-injection method-of-execution nitrogen-hypoxia preliminary-injunction standing |
Whether a district court can make factual findings based on evidence that may not be admissible at trial |
| 18-8769 |
Hilton Rios-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-questions constitutional-review due-process first-impression plain-error plain-error-standard standard-of-review |
Whether the Supreme Court should review and reverse the First Circuit's holding that an appellant is without recourse under the plain error standard o… |
| 18-8800 |
Stephen R. Winn v. Dana Metzger, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-expert-testimony due-process evidence expert-witness fair-trial judicial-discretion testimony |
Whether the court erred in allowing the expert witness to testify without her notes and denying the defendant the right to review the notes as part of… |
| 18-8740 |
Michael Manley v. Delaware |
Delaware |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-creation judicial-overreach life-without-parole mandatory-sentence |
Did the Delaware courts violate Mr. Maniey's due process and Eighth Amendment rights by judicially creating a mandatory life without parole sentence? |
| 18-8749 |
Marvin Earl Blanks, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-discretion judicial-reasoning sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court fulfilled its obligation under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(c) to announce the reasons for its sentencing decision |
| 18-8759 |
Cuauhtemoc Juarez-Aquino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing discretion district-court-authority due-process judicial-discretion majority-circuits ninth-circuit sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors |
Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion to weigh established factors at sentencing |
| 18-8690 |
Dagoberto Ontiveros v. Michael Pacheco, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-appeal anders-v-california appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure defendant-rights direct-appeal due-process legal-ethics legal-frivolity right-to-counsel |
Whether a finding of frivolity is required when rejecting a criminal defendant's direct appeal under Anders v. California |
| 18-8719 |
Ciaran Paul Redmond v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal federal-jurisdiction judicial-notice jurisdictional-element jury-instructions jury-trial sentencing standards-of-review statutory-interpretation |
Whether, after a jury trial, a federal court of appeals can take judicial notice of evidence submitted by the government for the first time on appeal … |
| 18-8675 |
Joshua Sedillo v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-precedent criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8700 |
Dorian Givens v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing standard-of-review supervised-release |
What is the proper standard of appellate review for sentences imposed on defendants following revocation of supervised release? |
| 18-8692 |
Jerry Adams, Jr. v. Robert Neuschmid, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 appellate-review batson-challenge batson-claim equal-protection habeas-corpus jury-selection prosecutorial-discretion racial-discrimination standard-of-review state-court-review |
Whether the Ninth Circuit properly applied 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to a Batson claim when the California courts' decisions relied upon legal principles in… |
| 18-8667 |
Donald James Anson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights digital-privacy dismissal due-process fourth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard probable-cause search-and-seizure standing surveillance |
Does an appellate court err in dismissing an appeal because 'it lacks an arguable basis in law or fact' without first providing the petitioner an oppo… |
| 18-8668 |
Joseph Edwards Teague, III v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appeal appellate-review detective-affidavit federal-law good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant state-law state-vs-federal state-vs-federal-law |
Was COA17-1134 dispositive of appeal brought to NC Court of Appeals? |
| 18-8674 |
Dewayne Montgomery v. Garry Lewis Properties |
Louisiana |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process landlord-tenant precedent slum-landlords standing summary-judgment tenant-rights tenants |
Whether the court of appeal's decision below, which effectively shifted the burden of proof onto Petitioner, a non-moving party at the summary judgmen… |
| 18A1004 |
Marcus Davis v. Universal American Mortgage Company, LLC, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review district-court foreclosure judicial-procedure pro-se waiver |
Whether a pro se litigant's failure to challenge the specific legal basis for a district court's dismissal of a foreclosure complaint constitutes a pr… |
| 18-8655 |
Nicholas Ryan Holloway v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-attorney appellate-review ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction post-conviction-counsel prejudice prejudice-analysis sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel strickland-standard trial-counsel |
Whether the U.S. District Court erred in deferring to the Arkansas State Courts' finding that Mr. Holloway was not prejudiced by both his trial and ap… |
| 18-8632 |
Marcos Lopez-Guzman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review criminal-sentencing judicial-discretion plain-error retroactivity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-reduction,18-usc-3582,amendm sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals committed a clear error in denying Appellant's two-level reduction pursuant to § 3582(C)(2) and Amendment 7… |
| 18-1251 |
Sandy Annabi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-deprivation due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard sentencing standing |
Whether petitioner has established a colorable claim of constitutional deprivation such that the Court of Appeals should have issued a certificate of … |
| 18-8589 |
Demetrius S. Rankin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-brief appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-law court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit ineffective-assistance legal-ethics legal-standards procedural-review right-to-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied and ignored the procedural pronouncements made in Anders v. California |
| 18-8593 |
Dontae Callen v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty fourth-amendment jury-unanimity probable-cause search-warrant separate-affidavit |
Where an affidavit does not support a finding of probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant, can a reviewing court consider information from … |
| 18-8558 |
Jorge Edwin Rivera v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure guidelines judicial-discretion plain-error plain-error-review sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights supervised-release |
Whether a district court's imposition of a term of supervised release double the Guidelines range without first calculating the range or providing an … |
| 18-8559 |
Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Zachary Taylor Daniel |
Florida |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation constitutional-violations court-procedure due-process due-process,civil-procedure,state-laws,federal-law fraud judicial-misconduct legal-mandate procedural-integrity standing |
Whether the Florida First District Court of Appeals acted legally in refusing to uphold its own opinion and affirming an order that goes against its o… |
| 18-8569 |
Melvin Bonnell v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review capital-punishment dna-evidence dna-testing due-process hearsay hearsay-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a trial court may deny a DNA application in a capital case based solely on the untested hearsay of the prosecuting attorney and in contraventi… |
| 18-8540 |
Eric David Bennett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3742 appellate-review booker booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review supervised-release united-states-v-booker |
Whether the appropriate standard of review for a sentence following the revocation of supervised release is the 'plainly unreasonable' standard or the… |
| 18-8547 |
Zachary Joseph Biggs v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-intent criminal-procedure diminished-capacity first-degree-rape ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea ninth-circuit prejudice |
Did the Washington State Appellate Court err in finding that Mr. Biggs was not prejudiced by his trial counsel's failure to raise the defense of dimin… |
| 18-8489 |
Danny R. Moore v. Gene Beasley, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-precedent mathis-decision retroactivity saving-clause section-2255 sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States,136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) should apply |
| 18-8531 |
Omar Sharif Beasley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review assistance-evaluation court-of-appeals fair-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonableness-of-sentence record-of-reasons record-of-sentencing-reasons sentence-reasonableness sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-and-policies statutory-factors statutory-sentencing-factors |
Did the District Court and Court of Appeals properly consider sentencing guidelines and factors? |
| 18-8504 |
John Whaley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process imprisonment procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether the imposition of the same twenty-five year term of imprisonment and maximum term of supervised release was both procedurally and substantivel… |
| 18-8506 |
Jose Jaime Lopez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
21-usc-846 7th-circuit 7th-circuit-precedent 851-colloquy abuse-of-statute appellate-review attempt-charge attempt-conviction civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-deal due-process indigent indigent-defendant indigent-status prior-conviction reasonable-doubt right-to-counsel seventh-circuit speculation standing substantial-step |
Whether petitioner was deprived of the right to counsel |
| 18-8516 |
John E. Drummond v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeals collateral-review direct-appeal due-process forum judicial-procedure legal-remedy precedent prejudice records standing |
Is the state required to provide a defendant a forum to litigate a due-process claim |
| 18-8458 |
Oniel Winston Scarlett v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process eleventh-circuit ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-reasoning merits-analysis merits-review reasonable-jurist sentencing |
Should the Eleventh Circuit provide a sufficient explanation of its order denying a COA in order that a reasonable jurist could ensue its reasoning di… |
| 18-8493 |
Jeremel Remymartin Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-921 18-usc-922 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-firearm-statute criminal-law-procedure due-process felon-in-possession firearms juvenile-delinquency juvenile-justice sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation youthful-offender |
Whether a youthful offender conviction can be used for purposes of a felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm-and-ammunition statute |
| 18-8500 |
Nickey Ardd v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights confidential-informant due-process entrapment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment warrant-requirement |
Question not identified |
| 18-1221 |
Peli Popovich Hunt v. David M. Goodrich, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction-mandate appellate-review arizona-christian-sch-tuition-org-v-winn bankruptcy-amendment-interpretations bankruptcy-amendments-overrule-pre-code-interpreta bankruptcy-court-adjunct-appellate-court-jurisdict bankruptcy-court-jurisdiction-limits bankruptcy-court-power bankruptcy-decision-abrogation bankruptcy-decision-statutory-basis bankruptcy-decision-without-statutory-basis bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-jurisdiction-distinctions bankruptcy-jurisdiction-dominance bankruptcy-jurisdiction-interpretations bernards-v-johnson bnsf-ry-co-v-tyrell calflin-v-houseman challenge-to-federal-law civil-procedure clearly-abrogated-principle cutler-v-rae czyzewski-v-jevic-holding-corp davis-v-dewakelee davis-v-wakelee emil-v-hanley ex-parte-rowland ex-parte-siebold federal-law-challenge federal-law-challenges hamilton-v-lanning intra-circuit-conflicts isaacs-v-hobbs-tie-timber-co jurisdictional-analysis kuehner-v-dickinson-co lower-courts-power-to-ignore-law miss |
Does bankruptcy jurisdiction consist of more than one type of jurisdiction, and if so, is one type of jurisdiction more dominant than all the other ty… |
| 18-8463 |
Douglas A. Dyer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-remedy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy kokesh-v-sec sec sec-disgorgement sixth-circuit supreme-court-interpretation |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in determining that the United States Supreme Court case of Kokesh v. SEC was n… |
| 18-8468 |
Alfredo Mendez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure discretion district-court-authority due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-factors |
Whether a federal district court is permitted boundless discretion at sentencing to weigh established factors at sentencing |
| 18-8451 |
Luciano Garcia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process gall-v-united-states judicial-review rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-variance tenth-circuit variance |
Is the Tenth Circuit precedent allowing a district court to say nothing when a reasonable request for a variance is made at sentencing consistent with… |
| 18-8437 |
Garceia Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, District I |
Wisconsin |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights conviction-standards criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdiction jury-verdict standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-writ |
Whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court's failure to grant a Wis. Stat. § 809.71 supervisory writ has jurisdiction to change the jurisdiction of cases |
| 18-8384 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-03-13 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights denial-of-review due-process extraordinary-writ florida-law precedent standing state-court state-court-denial written-reason |
Whether the state appellate court's denial of petitioner's extraordinary writ without providing a written reason or citing any precedent supporting it… |
| 18-8359 |
Jarrett Terrell Edwards v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review career-offender criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-circuit guideline-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.s.g-4b1.1 u.s.s.g.-4b1.1(a) |
Whether the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals committed error by sentencing the Petitioner as a career offender pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 4B1… |
| 18-8362 |
Pedro Rodriguez-Cortez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 9th-circuit appellate-review criminal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines immigration-offense sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether a combined 70-month sentence on an immigration offense and the underlying supervised release violation was substantively unreasonable? |
| 18-8370 |
Lonnie Eugene Lillard v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-appeal criminal-procedure discretion due-process federal-procedure ninth-circuit self-representation |
What procedural safeguards are afforded to federal criminal defendants when an Appellate Court panel exercises its discretion in deciding whether or n… |
| 18-8307 |
Dockery Cleveland v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment-search-and-seizure 6th-amendment-jury-trial appellate-review cell-phone cell-phone-search equal-protection fourth-amendment jury-selection ongoing-intrusion peremptory-challenge race-neutral-basis search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence time-limitation warrant warrant-limitation whether-defendant-must-renew-objection-to-perempto |
Whether the failure to extract information from a cell phone within the time limitation of a warrant requires suppression of the tardily obtained info… |
| 18-8338 |
Anthony T. Jackson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process due-process,standing,criminal-procedure,evidence,p evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction wrongful-conviction |
Whether the Illinois state courts' refusal to allow a petitioner an evidentiary hearing on post-conviction claims despite the record containing facts … |
| 18-8345 |
Gary Lakey v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus indictment judicial-procedure jurisdiction |
Did the Eleventh Circuit decide an appeal without jurisdiction when it denied a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on all issues on the basis that the… |
| 18-8348 |
Blair Garner v. William Lee, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
911-recordings ancillary-finding appellate-review civil-procedure de-novo-review due-process due-process-clause factual-determination factual-findings federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure notice notice-and-opportunity-to-be-heard standard-of-review |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in rejecting the district court's prejudice determination without consulting the underlying 911 call recordings, with… |
| 18-8299 |
Walter Raynard Lingard v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution-rights appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-departure due-process judicial-discretion probation-revocation right-to-allocution sentencing-review |
Did the court of appeals err in its determination that the district court did not err in declining to vary downward based upon Lingard's state probati… |
| 18-8301 |
Michael Daniel Cuero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals court-of-appeals-interpretation district-court due-process judicial-review mandate plea-agreement remand rule-21 sentencing sentencing-consequences state-court supreme-court-mandate writ-of-mandamus |
What was the import of the Court's prior decision? |
| 18-8314 |
Jose Nino-Carreon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion guidelines plain-error sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain Guideline error should ordinarily find an effect on the defendant's substantial rights if the district c… |
| 18-1156 |
Morgenthau Venture Partners, LLC, et al. v. Robert A. Kimmel |
Florida |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review arbitration blanket-order circuit-split federal-arbitration-act kpmg-llp-v-cocchi motion-to-compel prejudice prejudice-standard standing waiver waiver-defense |
Whether the Florida court of appeal's one-word refusal to compel arbitration disregards this Court's decision in KPMG LLP v. Cocchi, 565 U.S. 18 (2011… |
| 18-1142 |
Casimir M. Toczylowski v. Samantha Giuliano, et vir |
Pennsylvania |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
|
appellate-procedure appellate-procedures appellate-review civil-appeal civil-appeals civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-review merits-review property-rights state-appeals state-courts |
Denial of due process in state appellate procedures for civil litigants seeking to vindicate property rights |
| 18-8271 |
Tony Hernandez v. Darlene S. Sims, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-clerk due-process mailing-rule motion-for-stay petition-rejection pro-se pro-se-guideline standing workman's-compensation |
Did a Wisconsin Supreme Court clerk ignore the plus 3-day mailing self-represented rule given to pro-se mailing filer Petitioner Tony Hernandez when h… |
| 18-8282 |
Jason Andrew Wright v. Oregon |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability on the petitioner's claim which was brought pursuant to Strickland v. Washingto… |
| 18-8239 |
Negus Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure crosby-remand district-court intervening-change-in-law jacobson-remand law-of-the-case law-of-the-case-doctrine manifest-injustice new-evidence reasonableness reasonableness-review resentencing sentencing |
Whether the district court erred in declining to resentence the defendant-Petitioner on remand |
| 18-8244 |
Justin Keith Cornell v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
actus-reus appellate-review cause-of-death circumstantial-evidence criminal-agency criminal-conviction due-process jury-standard mens-rea reasonable-doubt second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Supreme Court of Virginia erred in applying the criteria of excluding all reasonable hypotheses of appellant's innocence, rather than the … |
| 18-8250 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment 8th-circuit appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process encourage-prisons-to-utilize-transfers-to-moot-sui judicial-discretion mootness mootness-doctrine prisoner-rights rluipa rluipa-standard standing |
Did the 8th Circuit incorrectly apply the mootness standard and encourage prisons to utilize transfers to moot suits? |
| 18-8264 |
Guadalupe Avendano-Vasquez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure deportation due-process sentencing sentencing-guidelines supervised-release |
Whether an appeal waiver precludes review of the sentence of supervised release when the defendant has been deported |
| 18-8209 |
Raymond Alford Bradford v. M. Marchak, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process healthcare judicial-precedent legal-interpretation mental-health ninth-circuit prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation |
Whether state prisoners have a statutory right to refuse long-term treatment with psychotropic drugs absent a judicial determination of incompetence |
| 18-8216 |
Zavia L. Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clearly-erroneous clearly-erroneous-standard law-enforcement-officer law-enforcement-testimony scott-v-harris standard-of-review testimony video-evidence videotape videotape-evidence |
Does a federal courts of appeals misapply the clearly erroneous standard of review when it upholds a district court's crediting of a law enforcement o… |
| 18-8227 |
Bodey Cook v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief |
Whether the Supreme Court erred in denying the petitioner's request for discretionary review under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (… |
| 18-8231 |
Alvin Stanley Briggs, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-review counsel-claim court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim |
| 18-8181 |
Feliciano Soto-Lugo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-leniency district-court-discretion due-process judicial-response preservation-of-error reasonableness reasonableness-objection sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review |
Must challenges to the district court's failure to respond to a defendant's non-frivolous grounds for leniency be preserved by a separate 'reasonablen… |
| 18-8193 |
Ada Albors Gonzalez v. William M. Stern, et al. |
Florida |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review court-discretion due-process evidentiary-hearing fla-r-civ-p-1-540b legal-malpractice procedural-rights sovereign-powers statute-of-limitations void-or-voidable-orders void-orders |
Whether the State of Florida court abused its discretion |
| 18-8198 |
Brandon Lisi v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver conflict-of-interest criminal-procedure curcio-hearing guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sentencing-challenge |
whether-petitioner's-guilty-plea-was-involuntary |
| 18-8161 |
Kali Lord v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
above-guidelines-sentence appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error procedural-error procedural-reasonableness reasonableness sentencing sentencing-arguments sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness |
Is a district court's gross failure to explain an above-range sentence or to respond to arguments for a lesser sentence reversible on plain error? |
| 18-8165 |
Michael J. Galvan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure deference federal-courts judicial-discretion sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether substantive reasonableness review necessarily encompasses some degree of reweighing the sentencing factors? |
| 18-1113 |
Jeffrey Gray Thomas v. Laurie Zelon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-complaint district-court-dismissal due-process federal-circuit-court federal-jurisdiction free-speech judicial-precedent rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of the federal civil rights complaint under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine |
| 18-8061 |
Philip Andra Grigsby v. Juan Baltazar, Jr., Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-25 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process fact-finding habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-due-process standard-of-review tenth-circuit |
Has the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit failed to consider all relevant facts prior to denying a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-8062 |
Saundra Taylor v. District of Columbia Department of Employment Services |
District of Columbia |
2019-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review discretionary-review dismissal-with-prejudice due-process judicial-deference judicial-review standard-of-review substantial-evidence |
Whether memorandum and opinion is not supported by substantial evidence in the record, is not in accordance to the law and an abused of discretion |
| 18-8102 |
Vivian Monroe Holman v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-process post-conviction-relief |
Whether the procedural protections required to challenge a conviction under 28 U.S.C. § 2255 were violated, including the right to an impartial trial … |
| 18-8103 |
Derrek Heard v. Walter Berry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
11th-circuit appellate-review civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-precedent legal-procedure precedent state-courts state-prisoner |
Are the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit required to … |
| 18-8112 |
Floyd Andrew Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-issues constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merit-standard reasonable-jurists section-2255 standard-of-review standing |
Should the judgment be vacated and remanded in light of Buck v. Davis? |
| 18-8067 |
Arthur Nop Lew v. California |
California |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions jury-trial self-defense sufficiency-of-evidence sufficiency-of-the-evidence trial-by-jury |
Whether upholding a criminal conviction based on a jury instruction and legal standard that are more favorable to the prosecution than what was actual… |
| 18-7995 |
Rodney Martin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-discretion procedural-error reasonableness-of-sentence section-3553a sentencing sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines |
Did the trial court improperly sentence Mr. Martin and did the appellate court improperly affirm the trial court? |
| 18-8005 |
Jason Brooks v. Angel Medina, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-appellate-review federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus merits-determination res-judicata rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) state-court-appeal state-court-appeals state-remedies |
Whether a federal appellate court can deny making a merits determination for a petitioner's failure to exhaust state remedies, when the petitioner's a… |
| 18-8008 |
Cedrick Euron Draper v. Muy Pizza Southeast LLC, dba Pizza Hut |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-courts'-review-of-a-federal-courts'-decr appellate-review detected-fraud-upon-the-court-predominantly-voidab federal-courts fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court immunity impersonation-by-title-18 intentionally-and-unintentionally-protected-or-unp judgment-void judicial-immunity legal-misrepresentation overrule-frivolous-defiance pro-se-ligitant's-defense-not-identified-to-author pro-se-litigant procedural-defiance voidable-judgment |
fraud upon the court |
| 18-7953 |
Matthew Peterson, et ux. v. New Hampshire Division of Children, Youth & Families, et al. |
New Hampshire |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review child-welfare constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process family-law findings-of-fact neglect parental-rights state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights |
Is it unconstitutional for the State Appellate Court to uphold a trial court's decision that did not find the facts in dispute nor make any findings a… |
| 18-7938 |
Alex Quintana-Torres v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-history criminal-sentencing drug-addiction drug-offense presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Rifa's presumption of reasonableness is, in practice, effectively binding and not rebuttable, and whether the 15-year, within-Guidelines sente… |
| 18-7945 |
Carl Allen Watts v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeal appeals appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-question criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection judicial-bias legal-standard michigan-court-of-appeals procedural-conflict standing |
Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals decision to reversed and remanded for a new trial in two similarly situated cases as petitioner's case, conflict… |
| 18-7921 |
James Howard Looman, III v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process F.R.A.P.-Rule-22(b) federal-courts federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure fifth-circuit habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fifth Circuit err when it refused to apply 28 U.S.C. §2253(c) and F.R.A.P. Rule 22(b) and follow this Court's commands regarding review of app… |
| 18-7924 |
Clifton Donell Lyles v. Angela Broach, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure due-process federal-courts fourth-circuit issue-preclusion judicial-procedure jurisdictional-bar rooker-feldman-doctrine standing |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err by allowing the Rooker-Feldman doctrine to be used to grant motion for issue preclusion? |
| 18-7879 |
Clayton D. Colkley v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment appeal appeals appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jurisdiction motion-to-dismiss trial-court trial-court-jurisdiction |
Did the court of special appeals of maryland err in affirming trial court's denial of defendant's motion to dismiss on the ground of double-jeopardy? |
| 18-1046 |
Virginia Callahan, et al. v. Pacific Cycle, Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure de-novo-review evidence evidence-admissibility evidentiary-ruling hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standard-of-review |
Standard-of-review-for-hearsay-rulings |
| 18-1051 |
James Dickey v. City of Boston Inspectional Services Department |
First Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1443 42-usc-3617 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-removal civil-rights-removal-act court-of-appeals federal-jurisdiction remand remand-standard removal statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erred when it concluded that removal was inappropriate under the Civil Rights Removal Act, 28 U.S.C… |
| 18-1034 |
Jefferson A. McGee v. City of Sacramento, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review civil-rights conspiracy discrimination discrimination-claims due-process equal-protection federal-financial-assistance racial-discrimination standing |
Discrimination against African Americans in law enforcement programs receiving federal funding |
| 18-7788 |
Sunny Robinson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review compassionate-release criminal-justice criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the District Court and the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting relief under Title 18 U.S.C. § 3582 |
| 18-7808 |
Michael Duane Wilson v. Robert LeGrand, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review claim-splitting due-process exhaustion-of-remedies federal-courts federal-habeas habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-standard ninth-circuit post-conviction state-courts sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Erred in Sanctioning the Ability of Courts to Refashion a Habeas Claims into Various … |
| 18-7829 |
Joe Homer Mark v. Amy Rabeau |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure counsel-performance custodial-interrogation district-court fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-error miranda-warning procedural-default self-incrimination standing |
Whether Petitioner Joe Mark's Fifth Amendment Rights were violated |
| 18-7832 |
Jason Lee Harris v. Karen A. Mullins, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process federal-law first-amendment in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit sentencing-guidelines service-of-process standing |
Did the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in barring the grant of in forma paupe… |
| 18-7841 |
Adekunle Olufemi Adetiloye v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court-files due-process habeas-corpus legal-standard standard-of-review substantial-showing-standard threshold-inquiry |
Whether a court of appeals can deny a certificate of appealablity without conducting the prerequisite 28 U.S.C 2253(c)(2) threshold inquiry, two-compo… |
| 18-7760 |
Geoffrey A. Gish v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§-2255-motion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-assessment plea-bargaining procedural-default statute-constitutionality subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the Eleventh Circuit exceed its subject-matter jurisdiction by denying a certificate of appealability based on its assessment of the underlying cl… |
| 18-7764 |
Marcellus French v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-error standard-of-review |
Did the appellate court abuse its discretion in finding that the evidence of prior acts was admissible and justified according to FRE 404(b), when the… |
| 18-7773 |
Jose Jorge Espinoza-Mendoza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alien-smuggling appellate-review criminal-appeal criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit-review guidelines-interpretation immigration risk-assessment sentencing-enhancement standard-of-review stare-decisis statutory-interpretation |
whether-the-sentencing-enhancement-under-u.s.s.g.-§-2l1.1(b)(6)-was-properly-applied |
| 18-1021 |
Travis Hawkins v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-court federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review preservation-of-error public-trial state-court state-court-decision state-courts |
Whether an objection is required to preserve appellate review for an alleged public trial violation |
| 18-1009 |
United States, ex rel. Muge Cody v. ManTech International Corporation |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circumstantial-evidence defense-contractor-whistleblower-protection-act false-claims-act federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-50(b) judgment-as-a-matter-of-law judgment-as-matter-of-law jury-verdict reeves-v-sanderson reeves-v-sanderson-plumbing rule-50 whistleblower-protection |
Whether the appellate court erred in not applying the Reeves standards in a case brought under the False Claims Act and the Defense Contractor Whistle… |
| 18-7739 |
Gonzalo Holguin-Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review jurisdiction objection procedural-requirement reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing |
Whether a formal objection after pronouncement of sentence is necessary to invoke appellate reasonableness review of the length of a defendant's sente… |
| 18-7717 |
Byrion Demeco Ferguson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1B1.3 amendment appellate-review constitutional criminal-procedure evidence judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing-guidelines u.s-sentencing-commission u.s.-sentencing-commission |
Whether the trial court committed plain error by admitting insufficient evidence applied by the pre-amendment 1B1.3 version of the U.S. Sentencing Gui… |
| 18-1003 |
Norma L. Slone, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review clearly-erroneous fact-finding factual-findings judicial-procedure standard-of-review tax tax-court tax-court-deference |
Whether a court of appeals may reverse a fact-dependent ruling of the tax court without articulating any standard of review, finding that any of the t… |
| 18-7698 |
Lawrence Andrew Ingram v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights contemporaneous-objection criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal-evidence-waiver-contempo definitive-ruling evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance trial-procedure waiver |
Does trial counsel waive a defendant's right to appellate review of an erroneous ruling on evidence if counsel chooses not to object to the ruling whe… |
| 18-7650 |
Robert Mitchell Jennings v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review claim-exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine federal-habeas federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel johnson-v-williams judicial-legitimacy judicial-procedure merits-review procedural-default trevino-v-thaler |
Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams, 569 U.S. 289 (2013), evade application of Trevino v. Thaler, 569 U.S. 413 (2013), and depart from the acc… |
| 18-7664 |
John Felix Greer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review case-or-controversy civil-procedure court-of-appeals judicial-review jurisdiction jurisdiction-of-court jurisdictional-review legal-jurisdiction mandate mandate-recall procedural-error standing |
Whether the appellate court abused its discretion in deciding the merits of a motion to recall the mandate without first determining jurisdiction |
| 18-7665 |
Robert Tommy Garrett v. California |
California |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-provision double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jury-trial legal-interpretation lesser-included-offense multiple-convictions multiple-punishments procedural-issue statutory-provision |
Whether the trial court's erroneous failure to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of law and the defendant's right to a jury trial viola… |
| 18-7679 |
Jeriton Lavar Curry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924(c) appeal-waiver appellate-review constitutional-error criminal-procedure jurisdiction plain-error sentencing sentencing-jurisdiction unconstitutional-sentence |
Did the Appeals Court err by granting the Government's motion to enforce an invalid appeal waiver, after determining that Currys' issue was non-frivol… |
| 18-7682 |
Stacie Demers v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-court counsel criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-claim sixth-amendment |
Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals should have decided Ms. Demers's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 18-7634 |
Lincoln E. Fox v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-error fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel victim-testimony witness-testimony |
Whether the trial court's admission of a videotaped statement of the victim violated the defendant's right to a fair trial |
| 18-7644 |
Carlos Benitez v. James Key, Superintendent, Airway Heights Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review conflict-of-interest constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process effective-counsel evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus legal-claim right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standard-of-appealability standard-of-review |
Did trial counsel have a conflict of interest by simultaneously representing Mr. Benitez and a defense witness? |
| 18-7645 |
Alhan Sanchez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-guidelines due-process mcmillan-v-pennsylvania meacham-v-fano minor-role-adjustment mitigating-role preponderance-of-evidence sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-watts vulnerable-victim |
Whether the government must prove facts necessary for a vulnerable-victim sentencing enhancement by a preponderance of the evidence |
| 18-7646 |
Jesse Sawyer v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court due-process federal-procedure judicial-mandate judicial-power mandate sentencing standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the powers of federal appellate courts are diminished and whether a defendant is deprived of his fundamental right to appellate review |
| 18-968 |
Andrew C. Najda v. Nikolaos J. Paterakis |
Massachusetts |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment manifestly-erroneous meaningful-appeal precedent state-supreme-court |
Does a state supreme court denying appellate review to parties that raise an error of law that is manifestly erroneous state supreme court precedent d… |
| 18-977 |
John A. Anderson v. John F. Walrath, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability habeas-petition judicial-precedent judicial-proceedings stare-decisis supervisory-power supreme-court-rule supreme-court-rule-10(a) |
Where the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia concluded that reasonable jurists could disagree on the fundamental legal … |
| 18-7549 |
Bonnie Robles v. Brookwood Terrace Apartments |
Kansas |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion legal-fairness lower-court-rulings procedural-violations statutory-procedure |
Why should it be lawful for the lower court to ignore 'STATUTORY PROCEDURE' violations by the Respondents during a lower court hearing and then questi… |
| 18-7585 |
Lemuel Gay v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court guideline-enhancement guidelines judicial-discretion procedural-error sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Can the sentencing court's statement—that it would impose the same sentence irrespective of any error in its application of a guideline enhancement—ab… |
| 18-7502 |
Edjuan Payne v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process mental-fitness mental-health right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sentencing trial-errors |
Whether the defendant's due process rights were violated by the trial court's failure to conduct a competency hearing despite evidence of the defendan… |
| 18-7566 |
Pedro Goris, aka Pedro Goriz, aka Pedro Abreu v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-review constitutional-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Petitioner's sentence was both procedurally and substantively unreasonable |
| 18-7517 |
Donelle L. Johnson v. Jennifer McDermott, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard prisoner-rights procedural-rights |
Did the United States Court of Appeals err in denying Mr. Johnson a certificate of appealability? |
| 18-7522 |
Freddie B. Kennedy, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights court-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-consistency judicial-decision-making legal-error precedent rehearing rehearing-request |
Did the lower Court commit error by not adhering to its prior decisions when it denied Petitioner's request for rehearing without discussion of the fa… |
| 18-7427 |
Abdirahman Yasin Daud v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error harmless-error-analysis jury-instruction jury-instructions jury-trial sixth-amendment specific-intent |
Whether the Court of Appeals' application of 'harmless error' analysis to an erroneous jury instruction violated the defendant's Sixth Amendment right… |
| 18-7438 |
Armando A. Villa v. Robert J. Kowalski |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-power appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process free-speech judicial-misconduct legal-procedure legal-profession rule-of-law standing unclean-hands |
Why would the United States Supreme Court refuse to hear the Appeal of a case in which an individual, who as an 'Honorable' member of the legal profes… |
| 18-7446 |
Anthony Jujuan Hopkins v. Warden, Ventress Correctional Facility |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge court-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction legal-proceeding ninth-circuit petition-for-review sentencing standing |
Whether the U.S. Appeals Court for the Eleventh Circuit erred in denying petitioners' COA, when petitioners raise jurisdictional issues that can be ra… |
| 18-7410 |
Walter A. Kott, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts fifth-circuit judicial-review legal-precedent petitioner-claim precedent standing supreme-court |
Whether the United States District Court, Eastem District of Louisiana and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals mis-applied clearly established Supreme Cour… |
| 18-7430 |
Mohamed Abdihamid Farah v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions specific-intent trial-by-jury witness-credibility |
Whether the failure to include in jury instructions the required element of specific intent is subject to harmless error analysis where the element is… |
| 18-7389 |
Scott Smith v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power |
Was petitioner denied his fundamental and constitutional right to due process? |
| 18-7393 |
Rodrigo Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-procedure drug-offense due-process firearm-enhancement firearm-possession guidelines-interpretation sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-enhancement stare-decisis |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's application of the firearm enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 2D1.1(b)(1) without requirin… |
| 18-7400 |
Damion Sleugh v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review co-defendant-testimony criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence fifth-amendment first-amendment impeachment impeachment-evidence witness-credibility |
Whether the need for sealing a co-defendant's subpoena applications ends once the co-defendant changes his plea and testifies for the Government at tr… |
| 18-7405 |
Gary Lee Beason v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel-ineffectiveness appellate-review child-molestation collateral-attack criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-bias state-action trial-counsel trial-counsel-ineffectiveness |
Was Beason denied basic Due Process when a biased judge presided over his trial, and can the states preclude the issue from review on collateral attac… |
| 18-7351 |
Rahmad Lashad Geddes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne appellate-review apprendi civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus mandatory-minimum sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Can a court of appeals sanction a lower court's departure from this court's well-established precedents that effectively conflates the standard of rev… |
| 18-7360 |
Peter Mathis, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process final-judgment grand-jury insufficient-evidence sentencing sentencing-review statutory-interpretation |
Did Congress' enactment of 18 USC § 3742(a) allow for the review of an otherwise final sentence if a defendant could show a violation of law? |
| 18-7363 |
Christopher David Krohe v. Zandra Steinhardt |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-review district-court due-process facts judicial-remedy money-damages remedy standing |
If the district court should not have denied case on its resolution of facts presented & If the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals should not have denied … |
| 18-7369 |
Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California, et al. |
California |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeal due-process judicial-petition judicial-review procedural-safeguards property-rights standing vexatious-litigant |
Does due process require the State to provide meaningful procedural safeguards when responding to judicial petitions? |
| 18-889 |
Dawn Smith, et al. v. Stephen P. Weber |
Illinois |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-court appellate-court-misrepresentation appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-adjudicative-process illinois-state-law illinois-supreme-court-rule judicial-fairness liberty-interest oral-argument procedural-due-process state-court-procedure state-law |
Were the Petitioners Smith deprived, without being afforded procedural-due-process, of their federal-constitutionally-protected-liberty-interest in ha… |
| 18-7301 |
J. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection parental-rights standard-of-review |
Whether the Fourteenth Court of Appeals erred by employing an unconstitutional standard of review that violated the petitioner's due process rights |
| 18-7340 |
Eric Dillon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split consecutive-sentences criminal-law criminal-procedure-sentencing due-process federal-statute mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimums sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation united-states-v-battle |
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 924(j) requires a minimum 10-year consecutive sentence |
| 18-7304 |
Juan Rodriguez-Mantos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process federal-law federal-sentencing-guidelines fifth-circuit judicial-review reasonableness-review sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness supervisory-power |
Whether the imposition of an outside Guidelines sentence is reasonable |
| 18-875 |
Albert G. Hill, III, et al. v. PBL Multi-Strategy Fund, L.P. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-courts circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-standards judicial-review procedural-uniformity remand standards-of-review summary-judgment uniform-standards |
Should the Court grant the petition, vacate the judgment below, and remand to the District Court for further proceedings, because the Court of Appeals… |
| 18-7236 |
Dwayne Stoutamire v. Christopher La Rose, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
alternative-grounds appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure clear-error-of-findings-of-fact district-court-discretion federal-civil-procedure federal-civil-rule-60(b) federal-civil-rule-60(d) federal-rules-of-civil-procedure findings-of-fact habeas-corpus rule-60 |
Do a Habeas Corpus petitioner need to obtain a Certificate of Appealability(COA) from the denial of a federal civil rule 60(b) and (d)? |
| 18-7270 |
Antonio Bryant v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process in-re-winship ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-confessions involuntary-statements people-v-bryant standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Illinois Appellate Court's decision in People v. Bryant is contradictory to this Court's decisions in In re Winship, Jackson v. Denno, and… |
| 18-7209 |
Daniel Oberacker v. Jeff Noble, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-criminal-procedure-due-process-hab civil-proceeding criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parallel-proceedings sex-offender-classification statutory-limitation |
Whether a parallel civil proceeding may be merged and transformed into a criminal charge/issue at the appellate level |
| 18-7201 |
Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was 'critical' to his case before fund… |
| 18-7216 |
Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th… |
| 18-7219 |
Jose Amador and Diana Mekaeil v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule invited-error judicial-procedure legal-burden standard-of-review warrantless-search |
Whether a finding of invited error requires a finding of deliberateness |
| 18-7191 |
Scott Richard Pendergraft, et ux. v. Network of Neighbors, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fair-hearing fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure meaningful-opportunity-to-be-heard pro-se pro-se-litigant procedural-due-process procedural-fairness standing substantive-due-process |
Whether a pro se litigant's procedural or substantive due process rights are violated when trial and appellate courts willfully refuse to fully and fa… |
| 18-7182 |
Roy Dean Gates v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-authority jurisdiction texas-court-jurisdiction texas-court-of-criminal-appeals texas-supreme-court united-states-constitution-amendment-fourteen void-order |
Does the Texas court have authority to overrule a state supreme court order? |
| 18-7164 |
Nathan Daniel Knuth v. Randall C. Arp, Judge, District Court for the First Judicial District of Colorado, et al. |
Colorado |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights dismissal due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-discretion procedural-fairness standing waiver |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals violated Mr. Knuth's constitutional rights to due process |
| 18-7160 |
Gerald Aranoff v. Susan Aranoff |
New York |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals divorce-judgment due-process forgery fraud judicial-misconduct jurisdiction legal-standing pro-se standing |
Whether the New York State Court of Appeals can dismiss a case for lack of jurisdiction despite evidence of fraud/forgery in the lower court proceedin… |
| 18-7119 |
Stanley Grigsby v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-justice criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process excessive-sentence judicial-error jurisdiction louisiana-law sentencing sentencing-review subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the Louisiana Court's have erred in determining that the sentence was not excessive? |
| 18-7076 |
Evelyn Person v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split conspiracy criminal-procedure due-process inconsistent-verdicts jury-instructions jury-verdict legal-conflict narcotics narcotics-conspiracy special-interrogatories |
Whether the Second Circuit's failure to vacate the verdict of guilt rendered against Petitioner in the narcotics conspiracy count based upon an irreco… |
| 18-7077 |
JC Christopher Pulham v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court legal-standard plain-error plain-error-review presumption presumption-of-correctness presumption-of-knowledge sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
When a district court does not articulate the legal standard it is applying, may an appellate court presume that the district court knew and correctly… |
| 18-7078 |
Joseph O'Shaughnessy, aka Joseph D. O'Shaughnessy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-plea judicial-review ninth-circuit-procedure plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness voluntariness waiver |
Whether the Ninth Circuit properly dismissed the appeal without articulating the factors it found to base its conclusion that the plea and waiver were… |
| 18-7072 |
Kenneth Harper v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error judicial-error plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11 sentencing-guidelines |
Has United States v. Vonn, 535 U.S. 55 (2005), and its progeny stripped the Courts of Appeal of the ability to meaningfully supervise the plea colloqu… |
| 18-7004 |
Miguel Rodriguez-Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 18-7005 |
Denis Aviles Salguero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review child-pornography constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment sentencing |
Whether Petitioner's convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography violated the Double Jeopardy Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 18-6971 |
Zachery Joseph Cooley, aka Red v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-sentencing gall-v-united-states guideline-calculation harmless-error judicial-discretion procedural-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
When a defendant appeals his sentence on the grounds that his Guideline range was miscalculated, may an appellate court disregard any error in the gui… |
| 18-739 |
Trevor Wallace v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review case-revival constitutional-compliance dismissal-with-prejudice double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment judicial-discretion jury jury-trial lee-v-us res-judicata |
May a state appellate court revive a case that was dismissed with prejudice after a jury was sworn? |
| 18-6940 |
Dalray Kwane Andrews v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure dilatory faretta-right faretta-v-california habeas-corpus self-representation sixth-amendment timeliness trial-court |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that Faretta clearly established a requirement that a request for self-representation must be made at least… |
| 18-724 |
City of Sandpoint, Idaho, et al. v. Dana Maddox, on Behalf of Minor Children D. M. and D. M., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process interlocutory-appeal ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment waiver-and-forfeiture |
Does the Ninth Circuit Panel's refusal to hear these petitioning police officers' interlocutory appeal on their claim of qualified immunity deny them … |
| 18-6903 |
Curtis McLaurin v. New York |
New York |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-law fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez habeas-corpus incorporated-application new-york-state-appellate-court search-warrant stone-v-powell |
Whether the New York State appellate court's holding that a defective search warrant can be cured by an incorporated search warrant application |
| 18-6894 |
David Crosby v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process evidence improper-vouching judicial-precedent legal-standard prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's holding conflicts with the Seventh Circuit's and this Court's precedent as it concerns improper vouching |
| 18-6884 |
Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aggravating-factors appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty hurst-v-florida jury-trial mitigating-circumstances ring-v-arizona sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment prohibits a state appellate court from reweighing aggravating and mitigating circumstances and determining that death is t… |
| 18-6879 |
Darren Hogue v. Brad Cain, Superintendent, Snake River Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-decision due-process federal-courts federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-colloquy sixth-amendment standard-of-review waiver-hearing |
Did the Ninth Circuit's memorandum decision contravene this Court's command that a proper review of a viable Sixth Amendment claim of ineffective assi… |
| 18-6853 |
Noe Garcia-Lima v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-52(b) federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure molina-martinez molina-martinez-v-united-states plain-error-review sentencing-guidelines substantial-rights |
Whether an appellate court should presume that a district court's error in calculating the applicable Sentencing Guidelines range affected the defenda… |
| 18-6855 |
Antonio DeJesus Perez-Martinez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection indictment indictment-variance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining proportionality sentencing sentencing-proportionality sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether appellate counsel was grossly ineffective by arguing a material variance instead of a constructive amendment |
| 18-6857 |
Joel Marvin Munt v. Paul Schnell, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-appeal district-court due-process judge judicial-jurisdiction judicial-recusal jurisdiction nondiscretionary-standard recusal standing |
Does the Court of Appeals have jurisdiction to hear a collateral appeal of a district court judge's refusal of a nondiscretionary recusal? |
| 18-6862 |
John Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure johnson-standard johnson-v-united-states plain-error standard-of-review time-of-appeal time-of-law unsettled-law |
When the governing law is unsettled at the time of trial but settled-in defendant's favor by the time of appeals, should an appellate court reviewing … |
| 18-6828 |
Gregg Thomas v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sufficiency-of-evidence trial-counsel |
Was the evidence sufficient to sustain Petitioner's convictions, and was Petitioner denied his Sixth Amendment Right under the United States Constitut… |
| 18-6837 |
Robert L. Swinton, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
anders-brief appellate-review collateral-attack due-process extraordinary-writ federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-defendant sixth-amendment state-court-review |
If the merits of an appeal exist and are not evaluated by a State or Federal Court of review, should a Federal court address Ineffective Assistance of… |
| 18-6846 |
Luis A. Pena v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review brady-v-stumpf collateral-consequences coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-validity ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion plea-hearing plea-record sentencing voluntariness |
Whether the Maryland appellate courts erred or abused their discretion |
| 18-6849 |
Steven James v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2018-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process federal-constitutional-rights jdb-v-north-carolina jury-instructions juvenile-brain-science juvenile-homicide juvenile-justice juvenile-rights miller-retroactivity miller-v-alabama retroactivity sentencing-standards |
Whether the Massachusetts statute M.G.L. c.278 sec.33E and the state court judge's decision denying discretionary appellate review for juvenile homici… |
| 18-6804 |
Shane Roach v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process legal-objection preservation-of-error sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Does a defendant preserve a confrontation issue for review by clearly articulating Confrontation Clause concerns as the basis for his objection withou… |
| 18-6806 |
Eliana Sarmiento v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-speedy-trial-act dismissal harmless-error indictment-dismissal judicial-discretion prejudice speedy-trial-act statute-interpretation statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion to dismiss an indictment for a violation of the Speedy Trial Act's 70 day time limit for bringing a defe… |
| 18-6813 |
Rash B. Ghosh v. City of Berkeley, California |
California |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process final-determination judicial-review legal-argument relitigation standing vexatious-litigant |
Was petitioner deprived of due process of law when the appellate court based its decision on an argument that had never been raised in the trial court… |
| 18-6829 |
Jimmy Walter Fuentes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error remand sentencing statutory-interpretation statutory-maximum substantial-rights |
Whether a court of appeals that finds a plain error in the district court's selection of a statutory maximum should ordinarily order a limited remand … |
| 18-6794 |
Charlton Bradshaw v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing statutory-interpretation takings |
Whether the Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection rights were violated |
| 18-6746 |
Joseph Haymore, et al. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-precedent severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule |
Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review |
| 18-6772 |
Donovan Grant v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appeals-court appellate-review conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process financial-transaction guilty-plea money-laundering plain-error plain-error-doctrine specified-unlawful-activity trial-court |
Whether the plain-error doctrine permits an appeals court to affirm a conviction based on a potential crime that it identifies in the record that was … |
| 18-653 |
Philip Morris USA Inc. v. Vickie McKeever, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Theodore McKeever |
Florida |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process jury-findings opportunity-to-be-heard preclusion preclusion-doctrine prior-proceeding res-judicata standing |
Whether the Due Process Clause is violated by a rule that permits plaintiffs to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of their claims w… |
| 18-642 |
Morris E. Zukerman v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
18-usc-3742 appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion sentencing-explanation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness sentencing-variance shocks-the-conscience substantive-reasonableness substantive-unreasonableness |
Whether a court of appeals that finds that a district court has failed adequately to explain a sentence can simply request further elaboration without… |
| 18-6722 |
Craig Porter v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in affirming the applicant's conviction based on the prosecution's arguments with regards to the applicant's right to a … |
| 18-6724 |
Roger Lee Ozier v. Shirlee Harry, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review armed-robbery bank-robbery confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination eyewitness-testimony fair-trial ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause sixth-amendment |
Was the evidence sufficient to sustain Mr. Ozier's conviction for armed robbery and bank robbery? |
| 18-6729 |
Jesus Santiago v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure district-court due-process guidelines-calculation guidelines-range judicial-discretion sentencing-determination sentencing-guidelines upward-variance |
Whether a circuit court can competently conclude that the Sentencing Guidelines were immaterial to a district court's sentencing determination |
| 18-639 |
Marek Biszczanik v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amended-complaint appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review procedural-dismissal sixth-circuit standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mich… |
| 18-6694 |
Timothy Weakley v. Eagle Logistics, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure district-court-discretion due-process inconsistent-position inconsistent-positions judicial-discretion judicial-estoppel new-hampshire-v-maine standing v-amendment |
Whether a district court within the context of a judicial estoppel claim exceeds the boundaries of judicial discretion when it dismisses plaintiff's 1… |
| 18-6695 |
Zafar Mehmood v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-interpreters-act due-process judicial-procedure plain-error plain-error-standard right-to-interpreter sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation statutory-procedures waiver waiver-of-right-to-interpreter |
Whether the plain error standard applies to appellate review of a claim that the district court's acceptance of a waiver by defense counsel of his cli… |
| 18-6716 |
Jerry Walker, aka Jerry Richmond v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court conviction conviction-reversal conviction-vacatur criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process judicial-review jurisdiction legal-preclusion sentencing superseding-indictment |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in vacating the Petitioner's conviction and sentence pursuant to Count One of his Superseding Indictment |
| 18-634 |
Aed El-Saba v. University of South Alabama |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-15 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure employment-discrimination national-origin-discrimination pretext pretext-analysis retaliation summary-judgment supervisory-power termination |
Whether the appellate court erred in affirming the district court's grant of summary judgment despite the district court's failure to properly analyze… |
| 18-621 |
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. v. Mary Faricy Pardue, as Personal Representative of the Estate of John N. Faricy |
Florida |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure collateral-estoppel constitutional-law due-process engle issue-preclusion jury-findings preclusion preclusion-doctrine prior-jury-findings res-judicata tobacco |
Is the Due Process Clause violated by a rule that permits a plaintiff to invoke a prior jury's findings to establish elements of her claims without sh… |
| 18-6693 |
Victor M. Mangual-Rosado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split conclusions-of-law criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court findings-of-fact opportunity-to-object procedural-error role-behavior role-in-crime sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-error |
whether-the-district-court-erred-in-sentencing |
| 18-6702 |
Brandon Gale Combs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement |
Whether it is unconstitutional to allow appellate courts to review information known to police, but unknown to the neutral and detached magistrate at … |
| 18-6663 |
Esau Escobar v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process jury-instructions murder murder-conviction prior-acts provocation provocation-defense self-defense substantial-evidence |
Whether the Appellate Court erred in rejecting the Petitioner's claim of provocation instruction due to the Petitioner's testimony that he acted out o… |
| 18-609 |
Joseph David Robertson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-09 |
GVR |
Amici (6) |
appellate-review clean-water-act criminal-procedure motion-for-acquittal navigable-waters rapanos-v-united-states sackett-v-epa united-states-army-corps-of-engineers-v-hawkes-co void-for-vagueness |
Whether the Clean Water Act term 'navigable waters' is void for vagueness |
| 18-6627 |
David Timothy Curry v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure direct-appeal due-process issue-preservation judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-reasoning standing state-court state-courts |
Where a state appellate court is required to address every issue that was presented when they decline to review a lower court's decision |
| 18-6653 |
Rolando Calderin v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court-error appellate-review constitutional-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process inculpatory-statements miranda-rights right-to-counsel self-incrimination suppression-of-evidence trial-court-error |
Whether Illinois Trial Court and Appellate Court erred when it failed to suppress Petitioner's inculpatory statements that were obtained after petitio… |
| 18-602 |
Jodi A. Smith v. Lakewood Ranch Gymnastics LLC, et al. |
Florida |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure defamation enhanced-appellate-review first-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure new-york-times-v-sullivan non-media-defendant private-plaintiff standing supreme-court |
Whether the enhanced appellate review reiterated in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan is required for First Amendment protection in a defamation case wit… |
| 18-6601 |
Stefone Dwayne Palomo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anders-review appeal appeal-rights appellate-review due-process fifth-circuit-rules frivolous frivolous-issues ineffective-assistance local-rules merits right-to-appeal sua-sponte-dismissal |
Does Petitioner's right to an appeal require either a decision on the merits or an Anders review with a finding that all issues are frivolous? |
| 18-6605 |
Joseph Perrone v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-proceeding appellate-review burrage-precedent causation causation-standard due-process government-assertions judicial-procedure record standard standard-of-proof united-states-v-burrage |
Did the lower courts refuse to follow the decision and holdings of this Court in United States v. Burrage, 571 U.S. 204, 134 S.Ct. 881, 187 L.Ed.2d 71… |
| 18-596 |
Marie Neba v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion judicial-review presumption-of-reasonableness proportionality rita-v-united-states sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines |
Should the Court overrule or refine Rita v. United States (2007) 551 U.S. 338, such that an irregular and disproportionate within-Guidelines sentence … |
| 18-598 |
Andrew Chien v. Andrew K. Clark, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-relief judicial-bias rico rico-act second-circuit-review standing summary-affirmance summary-judgment takings Whether the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organ |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in granting Appellees' motion for summary affirmance while denying Chien's motions as moot |
| 18-6561 |
In Re Jesus Denova Lopez |
|
2018-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court-discretion guidelines-range section-3553(a) section-3553a sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reasonableness standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals abused its discretion by the rubberstamp of the erroneous and impermissible conclusion of erst… |
| 18-573 |
Colony Cove Properties, LLC v. City of Carson, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
appellate-review character-of-regulatory-action city-of-monterey-v-del-monte-dunes economic-impact investment-backed-expectations investment-expectations jury-trial jury-trial-7th-amendment penn-central penn-central-test property-rights regulatory-takings seventh-amendment standard-of-review takings-clause-5th-amendment |
Whether a regulation that causes a property temporary but substantial cash losses is immune as a matter law from regulatory takings scrutiny if these … |
| 18-6505 |
Brian Powell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review district-court first-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,united-st motion-to-suppress private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure united-states-v-jacobsen |
Whether the First Circuit erred when it relied upon the private search doctrine as delineated by this Court in United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109… |
| 18-6496 |
John Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-argument appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-location cell-phone-location-data cell-phone-tracking constitutional-rights conviction-affirmance conviction-affirmation fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which failed to address Thomas's appellate argument that his Fourth Amendment rights were… |
| 18-6497 |
Dexter Watson v. Raymond Byrd, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing factual-disputes intent reversible-error |
Did the court reasonably infer petitioner's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt? |
| 18-6473 |
Jeremy Bernard Harrison v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
allocution allocution-error appellate-review criminal-procedure defendant-objection defendant-rights due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure judicial-error plain-error preservation-of-error rule-51b sentencing |
Whether allocution error deprives the defendant of an opportunity to object to that error within the meaning of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 51(… |
| 18-6437 |
Corey Holder v. Michael Sepanek, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-jurisdiction civil-procedure due-process excusable-neglect extension-of-time ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction prima-facie-request record-review remand time-extension |
Had the Circuit Court of U.S. errored in failing to properly review the record and remand to the district court for consideration and necessary findin… |
| 18-6459 |
Cliserio Balmes-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process judicial-consideration non-frivolous-arguments procedural-reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review |
Whether a sentencing judge must provide some express treatment to a defendant's non-frivolous arguments |
| 18-6430 |
Kinzie Decarlos Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 alibi-defense appellate-review district-court evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel off-the-record off-the-record-facts procedural-default section-2255 statutory-interpretation |
Whether the district court erred in denying an evidentiary hearing on a § 2255 motion without resolving contested material facts |
| 18-6434 |
Craig Martin Shults v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure ninth-circuit precedent rule-52(b) severance severance-motion waiver waiver-rule |
Whether failure to renew a severance motion at the close of evidence waives the issue, such that it precludes appellate review |
| 18-6403 |
Chester Larvell Starnes, Jr. v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power |
Was petitioner denied his fundamental and constitutional right to due process? |
| 18-6404 |
Tomas Ramirez-Cruz v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process judicial-review non-frivolous-arguments procedural-due-process procedural-reasonableness reasonableness rita-v-united-states sentencing-policy sentencing-procedure sentencing-reasonableness |
Whether an appellate court may affirm as procedurally reasonable a sentence imposed where the record contains no indication the sentencing judge consi… |
| 18-6401 |
James Gabriel Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review competency criminal-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure informed-consent judicial-process plea-bargaining plea-colloquy rule-11-procedure |
Whether the district court followed the procedure mandated by FED. R. CRIM. P. 11 in accepting a guilty plea |
| 18-6395 |
Alex D. Ramos v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process firearm-offense sentencing statutory-construction statutory-interpretation |
Did the lower Court err, and concomitantly violate the United States Constitution, Amendments V and VI, where it determined that Petitioner's prior co… |
| 18-520 |
WeConnect, Incorporated v. Brooks Goplin |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review due-process federal-rules-of-evidence judicial-notice standing sua-sponte unauthenticated-website website-authentication |
Whether Federal Rules of Evidence 201, 901, and 902 and principles of due process forbid a district court to, sua sponte, take judicial notice of info… |
| 18-521 |
Simpson Juan v. Jneso District Council 1, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review civil-procedure final-judgment judicial-certification multiple-claims multiple-parties remand rule-54b |
If a district court certifies in response to a I.R.C.P. 54(b) remand that one of the judgments in a multiple party/multiple claim action has remained … |
| 18-524 |
Eric D. Gathings v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
Was the appellate court's summary denial of a certificate of appealability (COA) reciting that it had 'carefully reviewed the original file of the dis… |
| 18-507 |
Jessie D. McDonald v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure court-judgment due-process extraordinary-writ judicial-misconduct judicial-proceedings procedural-error standing void-judgment |
Whether the district court lacked jurisdiction to enter a judgment against the petitioner without a show cause hearing as required by Rule 11, FRCP |
| 18-6372 |
Michael Small v. Cherry Lindamood, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge due-process evidentiary-ruling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion procedural-default procedural-rules sentencing state-court sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred when it agreed with the district court that the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel was withou… |
| 18-6350 |
Zavien Brand v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pro-se-petition section-2255 transcripts |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals was compelled to consider the petitioner's subsequent pro se demonstration of actual innocence |
| 18-6341 |
John William Lieba, II v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review burden-of-proof criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury legal-standard standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether sufficient evidence existed to convict Mr. Lieba? |
| 18-6349 |
Daniel Israel Palomino v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-review due-process guideline-commentary judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-interpretation sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether a district court abuses its discretion in misapplying a sentencing guideline when it refuses to consider a factor expressly provided for in th… |
| 18-6266 |
Ivan Rivera-Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553a appellate-review circuit-split criminal-sentencing gall-standard gall-v-united-states sentencing-factors sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness |
Can appellate courts reweigh sentencing factors under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a) |
| 18-6271 |
Sonny Scott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard booker-standard circuit-split criminal-procedure plain-error plain-error-review reasonableness-challenge reasonableness-standard sentencing sentencing-review standard-of-review substantive-reasonableness united-states-v-booker |
When—if at all—must a defendant object to the reasonableness of a sentence to preserve that argument for appellate review? |
| 18-6229 |
Josh A. Wairi v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review booker-standard booker-v-united-states criminal-appeal criminal-sentencing first-circuit-court-of-appeals gall-v-united-states judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-josh-wairi |
Does the First Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in petitioner's case conflict with this Court's decisions in Booker v. United States and Gall v. Uni… |
| 18-6237 |
Jacob L. Smith v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3553 appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process gall-v-united-states plain-error plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-variance |
In order to preserve a § 3553(c) challenge to the adequacy of the district court's sentencing explanation, must a party, who is given no opportunity t… |
| 18-6251 |
Lonnie James Pebley v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reprosecution supervisory-authority trial-court |
Whether the federal double jeopardy protection barring reprosecution as a result of prosecutorial misconduct intended to provoke a mistrial was not sh… |
| 18-6202 |
Amil Dinsio v. Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, Third Judicial Department |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure court-mandate discretion due-process federal-courts judicial-discretion legal-review mandate mandate-recall motion-denial recall standing |
Did the Second Circuit Court abuse its discretion when it denied the Petitioner's motion to recall the Court's mandate? |
| 18-6204 |
Jermaine Franklin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-circuit plea-agreement plea-bargaining unconstitutional waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by enforcing the unconstitutional Waiver of Appeal provision in Petitioner Franklin's Plea Agreement |
| 18-6208 |
Nicholas Ryan Hemsher v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 8th-circuit appellate-review circuit-split co-conspirators criminal-enhancement criminal-procedure sentencing-disparities sentencing-disparities-18-usc-3553-a-6 sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the statutory direction to avoid unwarranted disparities among defendants does not a… |
| 18-408 |
Kohn Law Group, Inc. v. Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi, Inc. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
appellate-review appellate-review-standard armour-standard armour-v-united-states civil-contempt civil-contempt-standard consent-decree district-court-discretion federal-circuit fifth-circuit injunction-interpretation interpleader legal-standard mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper mccomb-v-jacksonville-paper-co non-consent-order |
What is the standard for judging allegations of civil contempt of an injunction or other disputed order, as distinct from a consent decree? |
| 18-6161 |
Terrance Lombard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review clear-error clear-error-standard criminal-procedure district-court due-process motion-to-suppress standard-of-review suppression-hearing |
Did the court of appeals misapply the clear error standard by considering facts adduced at trial, but not considered by the district court during the … |
| 18-6171 |
Dion Terry Taylor v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review district-court-discretion district-court-proceedings inter-circuit-inconsistency pinney-dock proof-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-standard standard-of-proof standard-of-review u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§5k2.1 unraised-claims |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's 'Pinney Dock' standard for reviewing unraised claims should be clarified |
| 18-6180 |
Brian Deronceler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court due-process eleventh-circuit insufficient-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-acquittal sentencing sentencing-errors sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the evidence was insufficient to support the defendant's conviction and the motion for judgment of acquittal should have been granted |
| 18-399 |
John W. Fink v. J. Philip Kirchner, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-error jury-trial standing summary-judgment trial-by-jury |
Whether the court of appeals abdicated its responsibility to conduct a plenary review and thereby improperly denied the petitioner of his constitution… |
| 18-6111 |
Thompson Christopher Kyle Mandrell v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3553a6 appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentence-disparity sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the federal sentencing court failed to properly consider and apply 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(6) regarding unwarranted sentence disparities |
| 18-6092 |
Robert Dion Ables v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plain-error-review empirical-analysis empirical-foundation-of-guidelines guideline-2g2.2 judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-policy substantive-reasonableness substantive-reasonableness-of-sentences |
Whether factual error is categorically immune from plain error review? |
| 18-6077 |
Omar Qazi v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
2254-petition 28-usc-2254 appellate-review certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process federal-district-court federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel remittitur state-court-appeals |
Did the Federal District Court of Nevada have the jurisdiction to hear my 2254 Petition? |
| 18-6083 |
Jesus Manuel Laureano-Perez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court-discretion due-process government-prosecution plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review uncharged-conduct |
Whether the district court erred in enhancing Laureano's sentence based on uncharged conduct |
| 18-6068 |
Rodney L. Jones v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals discretion due-process habeas-corpus |
Did the court of appeals abuse its discretion in denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability? |
| 18-361 |
Lael J. Alleyne v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
|
appeal appellate-review criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process imperfect-self-defense jury-instructions manslaughter self-defense supreme-court-pennsylvania trial-court-error voluntary-manslaughter |
Whether the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania erred in denying a Petition for Allowance of Appeal despite the trial court's improper exclusion of voluntar… |
| 18-6031 |
Noah R. Robinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review direct-appeal due-process evidence-misstatement evidence-of-record evidence-tampering judicial-animosity judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct supreme-court supreme-court-review supreme-court-vacated |
Whether former Circuit Court Chief Judge Richard A. Posner misstated the evidence of record in the Green remand opinion, as a means to the end of just… |
| 18-6041 |
Robert Burse v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure cross-reference district-court error firearms-offense review sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) u.s.s.g.-2k2.1(c)(1)(a) |
Whether the district court erred by applying the Sentencing Guidelines cross reference under U.S.S.G. § 2K2.1(c)(1)(A) |
| 18-6044 |
Richard James Beasley v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review attorney-general due-process familial-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-ethics recusal structural-error williams-v-pennsylvania |
Does the right to due process require a finding of structural error where one member of the reviewing court is the son of the elected attorney general… |
| 18-343 |
Raiden J. Andrews v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error constitutional-provision-involved constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment harmless-error harmless-error-standard military-justice military-justice-system prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the lower court erred in failing to apply the harmless error standard to the prosecution's improper arguments |
| 18-352 |
South Carolina v. Raymond Lewis Young |
South Carolina |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review batson-challenge batson-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure deference-to-trial-court discretionary-review equal-protection federal-question jury-selection peremptory-challenges racial-discrimination trial-court-deference |
Whether the South Carolina Court of Appeals erred in reversing Respondent's conviction on grounds that the trial court failed to conduct a proper Bats… |
| 18-353 |
Tate Clark v. Southwest Airlines Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review causation-standard civil-procedure district-court evidence-standard factual-inferences fmla-retaliation genuine-issue-for-trial judicial-review mixed-motive pretext prima-facie-case standard-of-review summary-judgment |
Whether the District Court and Court of Appeals failed to view the evidence presented in conjunction with Respondent's motion for summary judgment in … |
| 18-6007 |
Valerie Louise Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-guidelines appellate-review criminal-procedure downward-variance federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness |
Whether the Court Should Grant Certiorari to Provide Further Clarification as to the Presumption of Substantive Reasonableness for Downward Variances … |
| 18-5984 |
Murad H. Beyah v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process government-misconduct habeas-corpus self-representation standing |
Whether HASAN MURAD OSTRES AND BRYAN was unconstitutionally deprived of the right to self-representation |
| 18-5988 |
Master Baye Balah Allah v. Brian Wilson, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-1915-e abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure,standing,due-process,abuse-of-disc court-of-appeals due-process evidence federal-statute legal-standard lower-court standing |
Whether the court of appeals abused its discretion |
| 18-5998 |
Keith Lapell Biggins v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure appellate-review buck-v-davis case-law certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process eleventh-circuit federal-procedure habeas-corpus statutory-interpretation statutory-operation |
Whether the United Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Contrary to Buck v. Davis, 137 S.Ct. 759 Inverted the Mode of Statutory Operation 28 U.S.… |
| 18-325 |
Thomas F. Gehrmann, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware material-omissions probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review waiver |
Whether Franks applies to material omissions and whether probable cause is vitiated and the entire affidavit and search warrant are invalid if omitted… |
| 18-5962 |
Theadene Mattis v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process free-speech legal-conflict national-importance standing supreme-court-review takings |
Whether the Florida 4th District Court of Appeal erred in its decisions in this case, which conflict with relevant decisions of the Supreme Court |
| 18-5970 |
Allen D. Gorion v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion reasonableness reasonableness-standard sentencing-discretion sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reform |
Whether certiorari should be granted to set forth some guidelines in determining when a sentence is unreasonable? |
| 18-314 |
Capella Photonics, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
35-usc-144 appellate-review due-process federal-circuit judicial-procedure judicial-review mandamus patent-appeals patent-law patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Federal Circuit's practice of routinely issuing judgments without opinions in appeals from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board violates 35 U… |
| 18-5917 |
John Doe v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review connected-conduct criminal-procedure federal-offense nexus obstruction obstructive-act reckless-endangerment relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred by affirming the judgment of the District Court, which incorrectly applied the Sentencing Guidelines |
| 18-5889 |
James Ronald Welch, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appeals appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-discretion judicial-review legal-review standing |
Whether the U.S. Circuit Court Judge Kevin C. Newson erred in denying Appellant's appeal |
| 18-5890 |
Mark D. Whitfield v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability circuit-split criminal-law force hobbs-act property robbery statutory-interpretation supreme-court use-of-force violent-crime |
Whether jurists of reason could debate whether robbery under the Hobbs Act possesses the use, attempted use, or threatened use of force against the pe… |
| 18-288 |
Philip A. Mearing v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
appellate-review appellate-waiver criminal-appeal criminal-defendant-waiver criminal-procedure due-process plea-agreement plea-bargaining restitution restitution-order sentencing sentencing-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of the right to appeal his 'sentence' covers an order of restitution |
| 18-5887 |
Cecil L. Morton v. Ron Haynes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus ninth-circuit procedural-component procedural-standard supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability |
| 18-5898 |
Armando Castillo Valerio v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review booker circuit-split criminal-sentencing downward-departure gall judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines standard-of-review |
Whether a district court's denial of a motion for downward departure is reviewable and the appropriate standard to apply for such review |
| 18-5812 |
In Re Richard DeCaro |
|
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure doctrinal-underpinnings double-jeopardy due-process gamble-v-united-states innocence original-meaning re-adjudication separate-sovereigns separate-sovereigns-exception |
Whether the Court should overrule the 'separate sovereigns' exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause |
| 18-5823 |
Alonzo D. Marshall v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing innocence innocence-claim post-conviction-relief section-23-110 trial-court-discretion witness-credibility |
Whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the trial court's decision to deny the defendant's Section 23-110 motion following an evidentiary hear… |
| 18-253 |
Michael Felix v. New York |
New York |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment adequate-notice appellate-review coram-nobis due-process due-process-14th-amendment errors-of-law fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel notice notice-and-opportunity notice-of-hearing opportunity-to-be-heard state-constitutional-right-to-appeal unexplained-decision writ-of-error-coram-nobis |
Whether the court of original jurisdiction denied petitioner due process under the United States Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-5797 |
Carlos Gutierrez-Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure judicial-discretion plain-error preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-review |
Whether a defendant must re-object to the district court's explanation of its sentencing rationale to preserve the arguments for appeal |
| 18-5748 |
Rory Allen Meeks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states appellate-review constructive-amendment criminal-procedure drug-offense drug-offenses jury-instructions mccoy-v-louisiana mens-rea sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether reasonable jurists might debate the application of Alleyne and Apprendi to mens rea and constructive amendment |
| 18-5774 |
Rochelle Driessen v. Royal Bank of Scotland |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-conflict civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-review procedural-standard standing summary-order supreme-court supreme-court-precedent united-states-court-of-appeals |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's May 25, 2017, summary order is in direct conflict with a decision of the United States Supr… |
| 18-5780 |
Peter Vincent Capra v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process duty-to-disclose evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony final-order good-faith-defense ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion jurisdiction standing |
Did the Appellate Court lack jurisdiction over the Appeal due to the fact from review of the record that the District Court had not adjudicated all of… |
| 18-5760 |
William Benjamin Brown v. Andrew Mansukhani, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing |
Did Yar Dishtich Lourl Moose ays Disteion BY Nol Address x's Cour OADER 7? |
| 18-5718 |
James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review |
Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in reversing the Court of Appeals of Virginia's ruling and affirming the judgment of the trial court? |
| 18-227 |
Justin Michael Wolfe v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-08-22 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appeal appellate-review class-precedent class-v-united-states constitutional-authority constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining state-court state-court-appeals vindictive-prosecution |
Whether a guilty plea in state court waives the right to raise on appeal the constitutional authority of the State to prosecute based on a claim of vi… |
| 18-5675 |
David Pate v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process government-overreach plea-bargaining right-to-appeal |
Is a defendant's right to due process of law violated when the government requires an appeal waiver as part of a plea agreement? |
| 18-5693 |
Arlow Antone Kay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
making robust appellate review unnecessary appellate-review constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court district-court-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines united-states-v-booker |
Have the departure provisions of the United States Sentencing Guidelines been rendered 'obsolete' and 'superfluous' by this Court's opinion in United … |
| 18-5713 |
Leonard E. Dunning v. Nancy M. Ware, Director, Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-discrimination intentional-discrimination mcdonnell-douglas motion-reconsideration pretext reasonable-jury summary-judgment |
Whether Appellate Court erred in denying Appellant's motion for reconsideration |
| 18-220 |
Javier A. Carrillo, et al. v. U.S. Bank National Association, et al. |
Florida |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
15-usc-1635 appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal creditor-possession due-process judicial-discretion judicial-procedure judicial-review per-curiam rescission-right standing state-court statutory-interpretation supreme-court writ-of-possession |
Can borrowers exercise the right to rescind a transaction under 15 U.S.C. 1635(b) and require the creditor to take possession of the property within 2… |
| 18-5647 |
Jeremy R. Mares v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review constitutional-representation conviction criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process felony-conviction ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel property-recovery right-to-counsel sentence summary-motion |
Whether counsel appointed in a direct appeal from a felony conviction provides constitutionally sufficient representation where he files an unopposed … |
| 18-5618 |
Tae H. Chon v. Barack H. Obama, former President of the United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fairness integrity judicial-proceedings plain-error preservation-of-error remand substantial-rights tenth-circuit |
Whether a plain error affects the petitioner's substantial rights and implicates the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings… |
| 18-5644 |
Gesner Delva, aka Ti Blan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 appellate-review circuit-court-precedent court-of-appeals criminal-sentencing district-court due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion precedent sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Contrary to Its Own Precedent Affirmed the District Court's Judgment Order Whereby Denying the Pet… |
| 18-204 |
Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC v. Iris Pounds, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction fraud independent-action independent-actions lack-of-jurisdiction rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-judgment state-court-judgments subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the Rooker-Feldman doctrine prohibit a federal district court from exercising jurisdiction over an independent action challenging the validity of… |
| 18-5615 |
Joel Chavira-Nunez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553 18-usc-3582 appellate-review brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-modification tenth-circuit-review |
Whether the District Court erred in ignoring undisputed facts establishing a Brady violation before allowing conflicted defense counsel to withdraw |
| 18-200 |
Michigan v. Charles Damon Jones |
Michigan |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process inconsistent-verdicts judicial-discretion jury-confusion jury-instructions jury-nullification jury-verdict jury-verdicts legal-standard new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence trial-procedure verdict-inconsistency |
Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals erred in granting a new trial based on an inconsistent jury verdict, even though irreconcilable jury verdicts ar… |
| 18-5540 |
Darnell Rush v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions motion-for-new-trial sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the defendant-appellant was entitled to a new trial where the trial court failed to answer the defendant's request, Did the trial court err in… |
| 18-5533 |
Brandon Maurice Shannon v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit harmless-error judicial-remand plain-error post-conviction-relief retroactivity rosales-mireles sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should this Court grant certiorari, vacate the judgment, and remand in light of Rosales-Mireles v. United States |
| 18-5554 |
Carlos Troche-Alvarado v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-U.S.C-3553 18-usc-3553 above-guidelines-sentence adequate-explanation appellate-review criminal-sentencing district-court-discretion erroneous-factual-basis judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness prosecution-recommended-sentence sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Whether a sentencing court violates 18 U.S.C. § 3553 when it imposes an above-Guidelines sentence, which also exceeds the prosecution's recommended se… |
| 18-5506 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection in-rem in-rem-proceeding intervention third-party-plaintiff |
Whether the state court trial judge, in an in rem proceeding, can strip the petitioner of his rights and benefits of equal protection to proceed as an… |
| 18-5542 |
Stephen Mayer v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture fraud judicial-procedure law-of-the-case prosecutorial-fraud prosecutorial-misconduct remand vacatur |
Whether the finding of fact prior to vacating the forfeiture order becomes 'Law-of-the-Case' upon remand |
| 18-5548 |
Brian Tuttle v. Allied Nevada Gold Corp., et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review article-iii-courts bankruptcy-appeals bankruptcy-courts bankruptcy-jurisdiction bankruptcy-law constitutional-rights equitable-mootness judicial-doctrine statutory-interpretation |
Whether Article III courts can refuse to exercise appellate jurisdiction assigned to them by Congress over final decisions of non-Article III bankrupt… |
| 18-184 |
John Ayanbadejo v. Mark Siegl, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion administrative-law appellate-court appellate-review civil-procedure court-procedure district-court due-process immigration judicial-proceedings legal-standard mootness procedural-error standing |
Whether the Lower Appellate Court departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, and/or sanctioned such a departure by the U.S. … |
| 18-5492 |
In Re David Louis Colson |
|
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review article-3-section-2 civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction original-jurisdiction standing state-court state-party state-vs-federal subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court |
Whether the superior court of Arizona had jurisdiction to render the judgments against the petitioner in a case where the state was a party |
| 18-5522 |
Edward Vincent Ray v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review buck-v-davis civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-60b standing successive-petition |
Whether the United States District Court abused its discretion by construing Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) motion as a 'suc… |
| 18-5526 |
Michael P. Lough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrant-requirement |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Lough's motion to suppress evidence? |
| 18-5538 |
Shawn J. Gieswein v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing guidelines molina-martinez-v-united-states peugh-v-united-states sentencing sentencing-errors sentencing-guidelines tenth-circuit volina-martinez-v-united-states |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit erroneously speculated that the District Court would have imposed the same sentence o… |
| 18-5477 |
Thomas Ebron v. Karen D. Brown, Chair, Virginia Parole Board, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 appeal appeals appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-procedure legal-access standing statutory-interpretation |
Has the U.S. Court of Appeals abused its discretion and committed reversible error in dismissing Ebron's 42 USC § 1983 appeal, finding no reversable e… |
| 18-5468 |
Raul Villarreal and Fidel Villarreal v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
acquitted-conduct appellate-review constitutional-rights dismissed-conduct fifth-amendment sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-review sixth-amendment statutory-law statutory-maximum |
Whether an upward departure from the advisory Sentencing Guidelines is subject to appellate review |
| 18-5469 |
Chad Allen Dorton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court due-process judicial-discretion obstruction-of-justice offense-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment standard-of-review |
Did the district court err in applying the sentencing guidelines offense enhancement for obstruction of justice? |
| 18-5452 |
Kenneth Roshaun Reid v. United States District Court for the District of South Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conspiracy-liability conviction-validity drug-conspiracy due-process jury-instructions sentencing standard-of-review statutory-interpretation |
issue being raised |
| 18-146 |
Veronika Marcoski v. Jan Rath |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
' 'credibility-determinations" ' 'habitual-residence" ' 'hague-convention" ' 'multi-circuit-split' ' 'newborn-child" appellate-review credibility-determination credibility-determinations district-court habitual-residence hague-convention harmless-error multi-circuit-splits newborn-children |
Whether the harmless-error rule applies when a district court expressly relied on clearly erroneous factual findings in its credibility determinations… |
| 18-5409 |
In Re Daniel Riley |
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2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights drug-reimbursement due-process erisa-preemption habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation sentencing state-regulation statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supreme-court-precedent time-limitation time-limits Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that A |
Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals has abused its discretion by failing to decide petitioner's application for permission to file a second or … |
| 18-5412 |
Robert Eugene Johnson, Jr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure conviction criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Can a state's highest court uphold a criminal conviction after being made aware that there was absolutely no evidence presented at trial that the crim… |
| 18-143 |
Sandra Lee Bart v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review conspiracy conspiracy-conviction due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing fair-trial government-witness juror-misconduct jury-misconduct precedent sixth-amendment substantial-evidence |
Did the Eighth Circuit fail to follow its own precedent and rule contrary to other Appellate Circuits and the United States Supreme Court when it appr… |
| 18-117 |
Brian Grimm v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review constitutional-law dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reliability search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
When a defendant challenges the reliability of a dog's reported alert to the possible presence of drugs in a vehicle, what standard of appellate revie… |
| 18-5371 |
Michael Ellis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review case-remand constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process,criminal-procedure,probable-cause,forf forfeiture forfeiture-doctrine people-v-gaines probable-cause probable-cause,forfeiture,unconstitutional-statute statutory-interpretation teague-v-lane unconstitutional-statute |
Did the State forfeit the claim, reliance or remedy of Michigan v. DeFillippo, 443 U.S. 1 and U.S. v Charles, 801 F.3d 855 (7th Cir.) of an unconstitu… |
| 18-5359 |
Ernest D. Suggs v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review caldwell-v-mississippi capital-sentencing death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing eighth-amendment hurst-v-florida judicial-responsibility jury-instructions jury-recommendation |
Does a Florida death sentence imposed pursuant to the capital sentencing scheme overruled in Hurst v. Florida, 136 S. Ct. 616 (2016), in a case where … |
| 18-5364 |
Harry Austin v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment state-custody writ-of-certiorari |
Whether certiorari review should be granted where the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the denial of Austin's petition under 28 U.S.C. §2254 for writ of habe… |
| 18-5341 |
Roger Wilson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law appellate-review civil-procedure default-judgment due-process equal-protection jurisdiction service-of-process standing |
Whether the appeals court committed a reversible error by denying the petitioner's motion to vacate a default judgment, where the petitioner claims he… |
| 18-5315 |
Marsha Chambers v. Green Tree Servicing, L.L.C., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-amendment anderson-v-liberty-lobby appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit-court judicial-precedent material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment |
Whether the lower courts properly applied the summary judgment standard set forth in Anderson v. Liberty Lobby |
| 18-5262 |
In Re Edward McLaughlin |
|
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-procedure due-process equal-protection fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court independent-action judicial-delay judicial-procedure mandamus third-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a writ of mandamus is the proper remedy to compel the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on petitioner's independent action alleging 'frau… |
| 18-5283 |
David McGowan v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-court appellate-review due-process habeas-corpus state-appellate-court state-court unconstitutional-sentence unlitigated-claim |
Is a state appellate court's unexplained refusal to allow a petitioner to file for state provided avenue of writ of habeas corpus relief on an unlitig… |
| 18-5284 |
Bruce L. Small v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto habeas-corpus sentencing |
Whether the Third District Court of Appeal violated the petitioner's constitutional right to due process of appellate review by not addressing his pet… |
| 18-5287 |
Luis Salas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appellate-review certificate-of-appealability criminal-conviction due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-vacate sentencing standard-of-review |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in denying Petitioner's Motion for Certificate of Appealability? |
| 18-5294 |
Herbert Pridgen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adjudication appeal appellate-procedure appellate-review circuit-court-error civil-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-judgment judicial-review jurisdiction legal-adjudication procedural-defect sentencing |
Did the Circuit Court err in its opinion when it failed to properly address the four issues raised on appeal for adjudication, giving an insufficient … |
| 18-79 |
Tiberiu Klein, et al. v. Daniel O'Brien, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
appellate-procedure appellate-review attorney-sanctions civil-procedure due-process fraud incompetence judicial-misconduct judicial-procedure judicial-standards notice opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-fairness sanctions subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the Seventh Circuit violates its own Standards and Rules and violate petitioners' due process rights in falsely accusing an attorney of pretense, … |
| 18-5236 |
In Re Ferlando Esco |
|
2018-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
' 'certificate-of-appealability" ' 'due-process" ' 'habeas-corpus" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'mandamus" ' 'sentencing' appellate-review certificate-of-appealability designated-issues extraordinary-relief fifth-circuit fully-briefed judicial-procedure merits-decision writ-of-mandamus |
Whether a writ of mandamus should issue to compel the Fifth Circuit to decide the merits of a request for certificate of appealability regarding two d… |
| 18-5223 |
Gerand Earl Ratcliff v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights deferential-review due-process fact-finding schneckloth-v-bustamonte standard-of-review voluntariness-standard |
Is the voluntariness of consent to search a question of fact that is subject to the same deferential review as findings of historical fact? |
| 18-5212 |
Markentz Blanc v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-flight-instructions district-court due-process elements flight-instructions prejudice prior-decisions sufficiency-of-evidence wiretap wiretap-evidence |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's rulings on the flight instructions, the necessity requirement for the wiretap, an… |
| 18-5168 |
Jose Palacios, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing de-novo-resentencing due-process remand remand-rule resentencing sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Should this Court resolve the conflict among the circuits concerning whether the remand rule should be interpreted restrictively, as held by three cir… |
| 18-5171 |
Erick Rolando Lopez-Mendez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process empirical-basis federal-sentencing illegal-reentry immigration presumption-of-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines |
Whether a sentence produced by the former illegal-reentry guideline, §2L1.2, is entitled to a presumption of reasonableness on appeal |
| 18-5129 |
Rodolfo Trejo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-counting due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection immigration sentencing sentencing-disparity sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation substantive-reasonableness |
Whether Petitioner's Sentence Constitutes Impermissible Double Counting |
| 18-5148 |
Marcus Blalock v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence appellate-review confrontation-clause due-process law-of-case law-of-the-case new-evidence new-trial newly-discovered-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-due-process |
Whether petitioner was denied his right to due process when the trial court failed to follow the law of the case doctrine from a previous appeal, deni… |
| 18-25 |
Edward Mandel v. Steven Thrasher, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure appellate-review bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-court-decision damages damages-calculation damages-review judicial-review legal-standard reasonable-royalty remand standard-of-review trade-secret |
Whether the bankruptcy court properly calculated trade-secret damages |
| 18-21 |
Allergan Sales, LLC v. Sandoz, Inc., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review circuit-court-precedent circuit-courts civil-procedure due-process factual-stipulation federal-circuit judicial-procedure legal-binding noninfringement patent-infringement precedent stipulation |
Whether the Federal Circuit may ignore a factual stipulation, contrary to this Court's precedent, and decisions of numerous circuit courts, holding th… |
| 18-24 |
Shannon Hyland v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
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appellate-review breach-of-contract causation civil-procedure duty-to-defend fact-finding insurance insurance-coverage insurance-litigation judgment-vacatur judicial-proceedings summary-judgment uninsured-motorist |
Whether the Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings when it deliberately removed relevant and unco… |
| 18-5110 |
Abron Spraggins v. Rusty Washburn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review cause-and-prejudice civil-rights constitutional-claims criminal-procedure due-process federal-claim federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prior-decisions procedural-default state-appellate-court |
Is the decision of the court of appeals regarding the procedural default of petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims in conflict with or … |
| 18-5111 |
Lynette Gregory v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-forfeiture drug-case due-process illegal-sentence money-judgment plea-agreement sentencing sentencing-waiver statutory-authorization statutory-maximum |
Whether a criminal forfeiture in the form of a 'money judgment' is an illegal sentence unauthorized by statute |
| 18-16 |
Larone Frederick Elijah v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing-guidelines-harmless- district-court federal-sentencing harmless-error procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness variance-sentence |
When a criminal defendant argues that a district court made an error in calculating his United States Sentencing Guidelines range resulting in a sente… |
| 18-5062 |
Norman L. Hunter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aged-offenses appellate-review career-offender civil-procedure criminal-history district-court-error due-process guideline-determination sentencing-enhancement sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the district court erred in sentencing the petitioner as a career offender when the offenses used to enhance the sentence were aged and not co… |
| 18-5011 |
Xavier Cardona v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review asset-seizure burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture currency-seizure drug-trafficking drug-transaction due-process evidence-standard judicial-conversion procedural-due-process property-rights sentencing-guidelines |
Was the court of appeals correct in affirming the district court's conversion of the petitioner's seized cash into cocaine when there was no evidence … |
| 23A1020 |
David G. Behenna v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
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Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review attorneys-fees class-action petition-response supreme-court-rules word-limit |
Whether a district court may grant a motion to exceed standard word limits for a combined response to multiple petitions seeking review of distinct le… |
| 23A1169 |
Torrey Lynne Henderson, Amara Jana Ridge, and Justin Royce Thompson v. Texas |
Texas |
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Presumed Complete |
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appellate-review constitutional-rights court-of-appeals judicial-process procedural-rules texas-law |
Whether the Texas Court of Appeals improperly applied procedural rules that effectively denied petitioners their constitutional right to meaningful ap… |